[Pc_Support] Re: 68-pin SCSI-SE? -- 53c895 for $10 ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 22:44 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> The card arrived (took them an extra day to pack it, then three days 
> from CA) today so I attempted to connect them all together... only to 
> realize that the card is a SCSI BLVD with female connectors

Wide, HD 68-pin connectors -- both internal and external -- are always
female on _all_ the cards I've seen -- SE, LVD, HVD, etc...  Both the
internal and external HD 68-pin cables are always male.

While this is opposite of the internal 50-pin IDC (male card, female
cable), it is the same as the newer, HD 50-pin cables which the HD 68-
bit is based on.

> while my cable also has a female connector on that end.

I guess that's why you got the cable cheap.  ;->

I have internal 68-pin SCSI SE cables if you need them.  I just have to
dig them up, but I have them.  Heck, I even think I have a few LVD (UTP)
ones too.

> In effect I still can't hook 'em up together.  So what can I do?

If you want to drop by my house in Oviedo, I can help you with the
cables.

> I've got an BLVD card, SE cable and SE drive - will the drive and card
> work together at all or do I need to replace one of them (again)? 

I've yet to see a LVD card that didn't also do SE.

Here are the 4 SCSI symbols to note:  
  http://scsifaq.paralan.com/scsifaqanswers4.html#a52  

I have _never_ seen the first one (LVD without SE).
Everything has been LVD (that also does SE), SE or HVD.

If you have the LVD symbol with the "right dash" that's an LVD that also
does SE.

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