[rescue] cheap external scsi cables?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 13:53:29 CDT 2005


Jeffrey Nonken wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:16:47 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
>>On 12/10/05, shirker at mooli.org.uk <shirker at mooli.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:49:53PM -0700, r.stricklin wrote:  >
>>>On Oct 11, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:  >
>>>
>>>>>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -0600, Arthur Wouk wrote:
>>>>> > >> i think these are called DB50s.  > >>  > >
>>>>>I've always heard of and referred to them as "HD50"s.  >
>>>>
>>>>Not to  bring over a perennial flamewar from another list I'm
>>>
>>>on, but  > it's a "DD50".
>>>
>>>I don't believe that's correct. The OP did state that he's
>>>talking about  the connectors on the 411 cases. I've never seen a
>>>411 with a DD50 on it.
>>>
>>>Ed.
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>>
>>According to this it's a HD50, it could be wrong but it's got
>>pictures and stuff :
>>
>>http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/scsi_connecters.html
> 
> 
> There's a 50-pin connector in the same style as the DB25. I bet you a
> nickle that's a DD50.

The main difference being (apart from the number of pins) that there are 
three rows of pins on the DD50, whereas there are two rows of pins on 
the DB25.

Peace...  Sridhar



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