Re: RAMfast to SCSI cable

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In article <DJ9rpL.CM0@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz
(David Empson) writes:

>
>Why not just buy a cable and avoid any potential disasters?  They are
>dirt cheap (about NZ$15 here, which is about US$10).
>
>If you make any mistakes with a SCSI cable, you are likely to damage
>the SCSI card as well as the drive mechanism (a friend of mine managed
>to blow up a SCSI mechanism by plugging a cable in upside down).

    When the CD-ROM unit arrived w/o a cable, an order was placed right
away ($9.95 + postage).  Then, it occurred to me that such a cable might
be pretty simple to make. IF Sequential designed their 25-pin connection
for a convenient ribbon cable match to the 50-pin SCSI plug, then
alternating lines might go to top and bottom SCSI pins starting from one
end of the plug. The mail delay would be circumvented and I could always
sell the 'official' SCSI cable.

   Do you know of an ftp site where a pin-for-pin description of RAMfast
signals and corresponding SCSI inputs might be downloaded?