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#SCSI Cables

    14-May-94 00:40:18
Sb: #SCSI Cables
Fm: Robert Little 72567,677
To: daniel wolf 70250,626
Just to get into an argument on standards…I guess. I've never read a spec from whatever standards body on SCSI, but it seems to me connectors are not required to be any single configuration. It's just the leads that are critical. Take RS-232, everybody calls a DB-25 an RS-232 connector when it's not, it's a DB-25. It's the most common implementation, but RS-232 over a DB-9 is still RS-232. It's not the connector it's the leads. But, it still pisses me off when you have to go out of your way to buy an odd cable that doesn't conform to the usual. If, however, those 40 leads don't contain the proper info on them, then it's not SCSI at all just some proprietary protocol that someone wishes to call SCSI. Robb