Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [...] > SCSI sounds fun :) > > > Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that > > there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 > > pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into > > the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that t

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > > The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics > > port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable > > that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. > > Most likely, the 25 pin p

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Ares
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 > pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into > the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for > SCSI? > > Would it be enough

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
> The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics > port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable > that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the

SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI scanner (it should work with linux), but since I've never used SCSI devices in my life I'm not quite sure what I need. The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came