> When talking about the DB25 end, it is ALMOST
standardized.
 > At one time, Trantor (now subsumed by Adaptec) warned about using cables
 > intended for Apple with their cards.  It was an issue of whether
 > "TermPWR" was connected. 
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:
    OK, maybe my deal is related to that, maybe not.
It's been bugging me
 for a while, though. 
I don't think that it is the same problem.  I think that Trantor's
problem was that their external parallel to SCSI gadgets (T338,
etc.) needed TERMPWR, and some of the existing cables that had the right
connectors (serial and centronics :-)  didn't pass TermPWR through.