SCSI cable needed

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 06:45 pm, Simon Fryer wrote:
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> I am going to guess a 68 pin wide to Honda 50.

I don't think either of these is "wide".

> Roy - can you check that the connector on the back of the adaptec card
> is looking for a male connector that is secured with screws,

I can't conveniently get at the back of the machine right now,  but I pulled 
out both of my other 2940s,  and the 2940uw is apparently a "wide" connector, 
and fastens with screws,  while the other (non-"uw") 2940 has a couple of 
latches on either and of the connector,  and is definitely smaller.

> and the connector on the back of the CD writter is looking for a male
> connector that is secured by clips.

Probably.  I just took a look at it and there are no screw fastenings there 
either.  Only thing I can tell you for sure is that it's smaller than the one 
on the 2940.  Honda 50?  That's not a designation for a connector that I've 
ever bumped into before.  Google is finding me some pictures,  though...

> [chomp]
>
> I have a couple of these cables but I never seemed to get them to work
> properly with my DLT drive and my NCR based host adapter. The cheap
> cables seemed to do something unpleasent to the most significant 8
> bits that stopped the wide drives from working correctly. The genuine
> DEC cable I borrowed from a friend on a couple of occasions always
> seemed to work properly.

Are you mixing wide and narrow stuff there?

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