[rescue] Weird SCSI cable wanted

[Jeffrey J. Nonken]

Are you thinking of extending from the SCSI connector to the drive? I'm not a
SCSI expert, but it's really designed to be point-to-point daisy-chained.
Tapping off like that will detune the bus.

I don't know how much it will affect your bus, but I thought I would mention
it.

That said, it sounds like you want a 50-pin inline male to 50-pin inline
female cable. Might be hard to find. http://www.cablestogo.com/ might do
custom cables. For that matter, if you can crimp the connectors, making one
shouldn't be hard; just a matter of getting the connectors and some ribbon
cable. In fact, if you have a spare SCSI cable around, you can buy just the
male inline, cut the cable to length, and crimp the male on the cut end. E.g.
http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/iec/ID50M

I had no luck finding either cable extenders or gender changers that would
help you.



On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:28:57 -0500 (EST), vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>Ok.  I have this SCSI device whose SCSI connector is upside-down and
>set a
>good distance in from the edge of the device.  Because of this,
>there is a
>significant distance between where the SCSI cable reaches, and the
>connector on the device.  I was thinking a short length of internal
>50-pin
>SCSI ribbon cable with a male connector on one side, and a female on
>the
>other would do the job.  So would a doohickey to couple two SCSI
>cables
>together.  Does anyone make anything like this?  Does anyone have one
>extra?  If not, would it even work?  If it would, and noone has one,
>I
>would probably just get the connectors and put one together myself.
>
>Peace...  Sridhar
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