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Post #7 by Trash80toHP_Mini
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 17 Feb 2010 - 04:52
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-shell-as-external-drive-raid.19882/
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All you'd need is a Centronics 50 female connector for ribbon cable and a backplane plate for said connector. Then you'll have an actual, for real, non-Apple-borked, SCSI port just like those found on the backs of correctly implemented SCSI peripherals.

We'll forgive IOMEGA for using those Dumb@$$ DB-25 connectors because they did passthrough and switchable termination/partial ID selection on the back of a tiny box! Apple, on the other hand, had no excuse whatsoever, there was plenty of room on the back of even Compact Macs to do a proper job.

Apple finally came close to a proper SCSI implementation with those HUMONGOUS, Horribly Unwieldly, still Dumb@$$ PB SCSI Cables . . .

. . . but we won't go there! :o)

p.s. When I couldn't find my HD50 <-> DB-25 SCSI Cable to use a ZIP on my QS2000 when I first got it, I rigged up just such a setup. I pulled it out a couple of days ago, when I decided to retire the ZIP Drive in favor of USB Card Readers on all my PCI/USB Compatible Macs. If you'd like I can take and post a piccie of it for you.

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