Re: Ramfast rev.D and Tower case

[jkeim@unlinfo.unl.edu (james keim)]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F6nke_Behrens?= (sbehrens@bigfoot.com) wrote:

: rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

: >     The Rev. D RamFAST board has a short cable going from the card to =
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: >25-pin socket. You could mount the socket in the back of the tower case =
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: >plug in a 25-->50-pin cable to connect your SCSI HD or CD-ROM. Alltech =
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: >25-->50-pin SCSI cables.

: Well, yes, but the whole point of the question was how to _avoid_
: having to have a bulky cable in the tower case. I.e., how to solve
: this using ribbon cable. The SCSI units are internal, after all. Sure,
: you can run a cable (that's what I do right now, BTW), but it's just
: not a "nice" solution.

: Soenke


Soenke, your interpretation is absolutely correct.  Right now I have 
an external cable (and the other connectors) stuffed inside the case.
It works, but it is not very elegant--not that I'm going for any 
awards.  I just want to be able to show it to my brother (a windows 
man) and others and not have it look too hairballed.

I may have found a solution--a company that makes custom cables.  I 
had called a few and none would touch a custom SCSI cable of this 
type.  If it works, I'll post the compnay, phone #, and guy I talked 
to about the cable.  It is a bit more expensive than some may want to 
spend.  However, it should be exactly what I want and it should be 
fairly high quality.  So, we will see.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

--James Keim