[rescue] FS: Sun EXP-2, Best Offer

[Steve Sandau]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> On December 17, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > > > The connectors on the back are some type of proprietary
> > > > 50-pin Sun SCSI connector with three rows of pins, styled
> > > > like an oversized VGA connector. In trying to use these boxes
> > > > with SS20s, I found that some of the cables were unsuitable.
> > > > Too old, designed for an older version of SCSI, or something.
> > > > I'm sure someone else can give you a better reason...
> > > >
> > > > I am still using them, but have only seen the connectors and
> > > > cables like that in one catalog. I imagine they'll get harder
> > > > to find, still.
> > >
> > Those cables are actually a standard SCSI (albeit very old) The same connector
> > is also used on IPI drives in Sun systems. Are you sure the drive you are
> > connecting to is SCSI? Are you sure the cable is SCSI and not IPI? (I wonder if
> > there is a difference? Dave?)
> 
>   They're standard DB-50 connectors, about as common as a connector
> can be.  Just not used much for SCSI in the past six or eight years.

I guess you can tell I haven't been doing this much longer than six to
eight years, can't you?? ;)
> 
>   In this case, they're SCSI-1 connectors...they use the same cables as
> IPI.
What is IPI, anyway?
> 
>     -Dave
> 
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> Dave McGuire
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