Re: SCSI question

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5gmi37$27u4@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>I have a rather unusual SCSI drive that has a DB-25 port
>instead of the regular Centronics-50.  Can I use a straight
>through DB-25 serial cable to connect it to an SCSI card?
>Assuming that all 25 pins on the serial cable are connected,
>of course.  I'm thinking of a serial modem cable.

I think I'd call up APS and order myself a 25-25 SCSI cable.

>Also, how does one determine the correct orientation of an
>internal IDC-50 ribbon cable?  There are those that lack
>the orienting gromet (the stub that prevents plugging the
>cable upside down).  What would happen if the drive
>mechanism was plugged in the wrong way?

Well I can say I roasted a drive controller when the 5v and 12v got switched
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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