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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: special scsi cable mac scsi to dd-50 scsi (SUMMARY)
- Message-ID: <EJH.92Nov19143035@khonshu.colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:30:35
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- From my boss:
- Here is my write-up on the cable. Please post to appropriate places, and
- include a disclaimer saying that we're not resonsible if it's wrong and
- they hose their equipment.
-
-
- ==============================================================================
- I had a surplus Sun SCSI disk drive which I wanted to use with my PC. I
- bought an Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI Adapter Card. The external connector
- on this card is a DB-25 and the only SCSI cable I could find that had this on
- one end was the standard Mac system cable, which had a 50-pin "Centronics" on
- the other end. This didn't help since the disk drive I wanted to use had the
- Sun SCSI-1 connector, the D-connector with three rows of pins, which I was
- told is called DD-50.
-
- We put out an appeal on the net, which yielded several suggestions. One was
- to simply make a centronics-50 to DD-50 jumper using insulation displacement
- connectors. This is what I had originally intended to do but the cost of the
- DD-50 IDC was over $20, so I thought I'd order a cable with the desired
- connection. We ran into problems because the pin numbering scheme on the IDC
- and solder-type connectors are different from the Sun SCSI-1 convection.
-
-
- The IDC connectors are numbered like so:
-
- -----------------------------------
- \ 01o 02o 03o ..... 17o /
- \ /
- \ 18o 19o ..... 33o /
- \ /
- \ 34o 35o 36o ..... 50o /
- -------------------------
-
-
- Sun SCSI-1 connectors are numbered like this:
-
- -----------------------------------
- \ 01o 04o 07o ..... 49o /
- \ /
- \ 03o 06o ..... 48o /
- \ /
- \ 02o 05o 08o ..... 50o /
- -------------------------
-
-
- The proper pin-outs for these connectors are as follows:
-
- MAC/IBM SCSI-1 IDC
- Signal DB-25 DD-50 50-Pin
- ------ ------- ------ ------
- -DB(0) 8 2 34
- -DB(1) 21 4 2
- -DB(2) 22 6 19
- -DB(3) 10 8 36
- -DB(4) 23 10 4
- -DB(5) 11 12 21
- -DB(6) 12 14 38
- -DB(7) 13 16 6
- -DB(P) 20 18 23
- -TERM PWR 25 26 42
- -ATN 17 32 44
- -BSY 6 36 29
- -ACK 5 38 46
- -RST 4 40 14
- -MSG 2 42 31
- -SEL 19 44 48
- -C/D 15 46 16
- -REQ 1 48 33
- -I/O 3 50 50
-
- all other pins not listed above are ground (GND).
-
- This should allow you to use Sun SCSI-1 devices with a Mac or with a PC having
- the Allways IN-2000 SCSI Adapter card in it.
-
- However, after all this, we discovered that the controller card in the
- drive was not standard scsi anyway, so we took the drive out and
- connected it via esdi. Oh well.
- --
- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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-