Re: Looking for Sider Diskettes

[a1a51640@sprint.ca]

On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 02:11:03 GMT, Bryan Villados
<news001@nospam_macgeek.org> wrote:

>
>Okay.... Here are the pin-outs:
>
>37 pin   2x25 pin
>D-Sub      header
>
> 1 ->  1
> 2 ->  3
> 3 ->  5
> 4 ->  7
> 5 ->  9
> 6 -> 11
> 7 -> 13
> 8 -> 15
> 9 -> 17
>10 -> 19
>11 -> 34
>12 -> 36
>13 -> 38
>14 -> 40
>15 -> 42
>16 -> 44
>17 -> 46
>18 -> 48
>19 -> 50
>20 ->  2
>21 ->  4
>22 ->  6
>23 ->  8
>24 -> 10
>25 -> 12
>26 -> 14
>27 -> 16
>28 -> 18
>29 -> 20
>30 -> 35
>31 -> 37
>32 -> 39
>33 -> 41
>34 -> 43
>35 -> 45
>36 -> 47
>37 -> 49
>
>Source: Sider Fixed Disk Drive Subsystem User's Guide 106109-01 Rev. D
>
>Also note that the drive needs a terminator plug on one of the two
>ports on the back of the external drive. I tried, and I can't get my
>drive to work without one.

(...)


 Is that information intended to give a method for linking the Sider's
37 pin port to an ordinary SCSI 50 pin connector?  

My Xebec card has a DB25 female connector, and the local scuzzi gurus
swear that 25 pin to 37pin is impossible.  It looks as if the pin out
you describe is intended to turn the SASI interface into an orthodox
SCSI configuration.

My Sider, by the way, has four !0meg  MFM drives lined up inside it,
and I am dying to see what is on them: everything we need, in all
likelihood.

You say you found the three disks you were looking for. Will you --
for a fee of course -- snail-mail me copies?  My only Internet
connection is via Pentium so Apple disk images (as far as I can see)
are beyond my reach,  

Where did you find a 37 pin terminator plug?

Regards to all,
Ron.