Re: db-19 cable pinouts: same across drives?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

stephen e buggie (buggie@auriga.unm.edu) wrote:

: I'm adding db-19 round cables to Disk II drives so that they will be
: compatible with IIc and IIgs.

: Using salvages db-19 cables from the older Mac external drives, I notice
: that sometimes those cables work fine on Disk II, and in other instances,
: the cables don't work.  Theis variation happens even among cables taken
: from the same model of junked disk drive.  No damage to any mechanism
: found to result from cable-swapping.

: Did _cable pinouts_ differ on various db-19 drives?

One time I tried to do the reverse, use a Disk II cable in a Mac Plus as an
internal drive cable. It put the drive into endless ejection as long as the
power was on. There is something different abou;the cables so I wouldn't
mess with 'em.
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