68-pin to 50-pin adapters question

#1 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 - 20:27

Hi guys,

Most of us use this kind of 68-pin to 50-pin adapter:

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(both ends are male)

They aren't that expensive, but I have found cheapers models of that kind :

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(both ends are female)

My question is : will the latter work if plugged bewteen a mac 68k mobo and a 68-pin scsi flatcable?

Thanks in advance.

#2 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 - 02:05

I don't see why not.

#3 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 - 03:22

That's not quite exactly what it's intended to do. It should work fine in a vertical connector, but I don't know about a horizontal one.

I've got one of these, it'll make it easy for the CD-ROM in the Radius 81/110 to live in harmony with adapted SCA Drives, all using the narrower 68 pin internal cables.

#4 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 - 19:21

Thanks guys.

I'll give a try and will post the results here.

#5 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 - 19:44

Actually, that's exactly what I'm doing in my PowerMac 6100. I've got two female 50pin to 68pin connectors (one of the motherboard and the other on the CD-ROM drive) using a 68-pin SCSI cable.That way I could use one of my 68pin 4GB Compaq SCSI drives and partition it with both Mac OS and MkLlinux and it works great.