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- From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 SCSI chain: help me
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 01:01:03 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA
- Message-ID: <4e994f$agf@news.iastate.edu>
- References: <Pine.HPP.3.90.960117002229.16484A-100000@bologna.nettuno.it> <4drqv7$phq@rapidnet.com> <3104F03C.4266@vianet.net.au>
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- In article <3104F03C.4266@vianet.net.au>,
- G.Taylor <carinehs@vianet.net.au> wrote:
- >Warren Block wrote:
- >
- >> The cable that came with the A3000 should have three 50-pin connectors,
- >> one of which is plugged into the motherboard, the other plugged into the
- >> current drive. The new drive can go on the unused connector.
- >
- >Dear Warren et al...
- >
- >You may find the cable supplied has two female and one male 50-way
- >connectors as mine had. In that case you need to add another 50-way
- >feamle socket to the end of the cable. Given you have enough length ,
- >you simply clamp a new insulation displacement socket in front of the
- >male socket on the end of the cable. You may find you need to make up a
- >new cable to provide enough length anyway.
- >--
- >Regards
- >
- >Geoff Taylor
-
- My A3000 (motherboard 7.3) also had 2 female and a terminal male
- connector on the SCSI cable. Last year I bought a Quantum 540 MB
- Maverick hard drive (SCSI 2, I believe). The Mac dealer that sold me
- the drive sent along a standard, 3 female connector ribbon cable. The
- 540 went into the rear drive bay in place of the original Quantum 50 MB
- drive. The original A3000 ribbon cable plugged into the 540. One end
- of the new ribbon cable plugged into the original cable's male
- connector. The other end of the new ribbon cable plugged into the old
- 50 MB hard drive, which went into a front drive bay. There's about a
- foot more ribbon cable than I really need, but I don't plan on changing
- anything because it works fine.
-
- Paul Hollander pholland@iastate.edu
- Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.
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