| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 594.1 | Complain to your drive vendor! | ATLANT::SCHMIDT | TOEM Engineering, MRO1-1 Pole KL32 | Fri Jul 01 1994 07:14 | 19 |
| 594.2 | | LEDS::PRIBORSKY | AVASTOR: A Digital Equipment Company (this week) | Fri Jul 01 1994 08:46 | 5 |
| 594.3 | Try BlackBox (412)746-5500 | RANGER::HARRIS | Juggling has its ups and downs | Fri Jul 01 1994 09:28 | 1 |
| 594.4 | potential part numbers | STARCH::HAGERMAN | Flames to /dev/null | Mon Jul 11 1994 14:19 | 25 |
| 594.5 | Weird grounding? | HANNAH::GABBE | Quality by coincidence | Tue Jul 12 1994 00:04 | 17 |
| 594.6 | | STARCH::HAGERMAN | Flames to /dev/null | Tue Jul 12 1994 12:20 | 16 |
| 594.7 | Prices | HANNAH::GABBE | Quality by coincidence | Tue Jul 12 1994 20:19 | 13 |
| 594.8 | Part numbers, etc. | HANNAH::GABBE | Quality by coincidence | Mon Jul 25 1994 19:49 | 12 |
| 594.9 | | DPE1::ARMSTRONG | | Wed May 14 1997 18:10 | 16 |
| This is probably not the right note, but best I can find.
Our school was recently given a CD Drive and told it was for
a Mac. But the connectors are not 'normal' SCSI. The are
normal 50 pin connectors (two rows of pins), like the
connectors on a SCSI Hard Drive...like the 'internal' SCSI
but not the connectors normally on an external box.
I think this CD came from a PC. Did they use a different cable?
Another difference....there was a dip switch with what looked like
a 'terminator' switch and SCSI address (and maybe one more switch?).
But the SCSI address switches were 4 bits, not 3. Does this make
sense?
thanks
bob
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| 594.10 | | CSC32::M_HERODOTUS | Mario at CXO3/B10 Colorado | Thu May 15 1997 01:11 | 11 |
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Are you sure it's SCSI? Seems to me most of the CD ROMs for PC's are
IDE or EIDE. I guess it's possible that the drive is using a ribbon
cable to connect externally, but I've never seen one do that before.
Are there any markings on the drive that could help identify it?
I used a PC CD ROM on my Mac for a long time. It was SCSI and it used
the same 50 pin connector the Mac uses. I used FWB CD ROM Toolkit to
drive it. I would imagine that any SCSI CD should meet the standards.
Mario
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| 594.11 | Another country heard from :-) | SMURF::BINDER | Errabit quicquid errare potest. | Thu May 15 1997 09:47 | 18 |
| With regard to "the same 50 pin connector the Mac uses," that's not a
Mac standard - it's a SCSI standard. There are only two different
connectors used by standard SCSI devices:
o The 50-pin AMP connector we're used to seeing, often called a
"Centronics" connector, after the early 1970s dot-matrix printer
that popularized it and still used today on parallel printers
o A metal connector, much more compact, that looks sort of like a
squished D-submin connector with 68 pins - this is for SCSI-II
(fast & wide)
PowerBooks use that little HDI-30 connector, and a very occasional
device (Zip Drive comes to mind) uses a 25-pin D-submin just like the
one on the back of a Mac system. My Apple scanner has one 50-pin
Centronics connector and one D-submin. I've never seen a SCSI device
that used a ribbon connector externally, and I'd say it's highly
unlikely - especially with FCC requirements about shielding.
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