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- From: ssingh@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Ice )
- Subject: stupid scsi tape drives
- Message-ID: <BxsMwr.1py@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: the pins are reversed
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:22:02 GMT
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- Hope someone can help me...
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- Archive QIC tape drives are excellent...except for the fact
- that pin1 on the drive is on the right side of the connector
- rather than the left. Virtually every other drive made has
- pin1 on the left side. This creates problems when trying to
- install a cable, especially a fat SCSI cable.
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- You have to put a vicious twist in it in order to get the
- orientation right.
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- DOES THERE EXIST A KIND OF ADAPTER WHICH WILL RE-MAP THE
- PINS _AS_IF_ THAT TWIST WAS IN THE CABLE?
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- I figure that others have had to deal with this nonsense and
- that it's just a matter of ordering it.
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- Thanks very much for any and all responses. Please e-mail.
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- Will forward / post if requested.
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- Ice() ice@skynet.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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