23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
1:19 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
... a WISE choice ...
The same seller also has a
"used but reliable" SCSI terminator, used but
reliable 44 and 88M Syquest cartridges and movie posters.
Since people would rather pay $9 for a cable that can only possibly be
characterized as "unknown" condition than half that for a tested one (used
for SCSI to SCSI, without any "Serial"), then I won't bother getting out
those bins.
Does anybody know whether the cable pinout at the DB25
end is the same for
both Syquest and Apple products?
ALMOST.
When talking about the Blue Ribbon connector (aka "Centronics 50
pin" :-), the pinout is nominally standardized.
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.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com