16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
4 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
I don't wish to question authority, as it were, but the internal
cables are 104 pin (If I'm counting them correctly) and the external
SCSI port on the back is 72-pin mini-D. That *looks* like wide SCSI to
me! If it's not, then what kind of cabling is it? The ordinary
narrow-SCSI stuff I knew from back in the '80s and '90s was 50-way
ribbon cables with 50-pin IDC connectors internally and either 50-pin
Centronics or D25 connectors externally.
It's 8-bit 10MHz. :) Those machines were designed before the "standard"
SCSI connectors were standardized.
These are the machines with that weird HONDA68F connector on the
backplate, right? But the internal ribbon cables should be
[weird_ribbon_connector]->50-pin IDC, right?
Peace... Sridhar
I have a
VAXstation 3100 model 38 I bought on eBay for the princely
sum of ?0.99. Sadly it came without disks and I have no wide-SCSI
disks of <1GB.
That machine doesn't have wide SCSI. It's 8-bit ("narrow") 10MHz.