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#SCSI Cables

    14-May-94 04:28:38
Sb: #145320-#SCSI Cables
Fm: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
To: daniel wolf 70250,626
Daniel: I've seen lots of PC 'SCSI' CDROM drives that have 40 pin connectors on both the drive & the 'SCSI' controller card that comes with it. If you want to use the drive with a normal SCSI controller you have to buy a special adapter cable that goes from 40 pin to 50 pin. Of course this cable is an extra cost option. It's truly amazing on the PC how many companies expect you to have no more than 1 device per SCSI controller in the machine. Nikon's coolscan slide scanner is only certified to work with their proprietary SCSI controller, and is supposed to be the only device hooked to that controller. Of course the Mac version of the same scanner is just hooked to the Mac's SCSI port like any other device would be. Oh, and the device used in this example doesn't work with the Amiga's SCSI according to Nikon. // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale