SCSI-ness

[Adam McDougall]

Are you certain that the drive itself is male? I am pretty for for 68 pin
stuff the cable connectors are male and the drive female... at least mine
are.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Matt Fuerst wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I have what should be a relatively simple question. I have an Onstream
> ADR-50 Tape Drive that I need to install in a machine. The connector on the
> Onstream is the 68 Pin high density type....
> 
> Unforuntely, we need some additional hardware since the machine we are
> installing it into has got SCSI built in, but the connector is the 50 pin,
> (low density?) type. The only other thing on that SCSI bus is the CD-ROM.
> 
> Allright, so I need a 68 --> 50 pin adaptor. But now comes the question of
> gender. The tape drive is meant to be plugged into a connector, so it is a
> male. (Aren't all internal drives?) And the cable that is sitting inside my
> machine is waiting to accept a connector (Female)...
> 
> What I am thinking I need is a 68 pin female to 50 pin male adaptor.. is
> that right? I hope I have explained the situation enough for you to properly
> visualize this.
> 
> I look at this adapter
> http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2000042515272922&GEN9=5CG0
> 1&PAGLEN=10&FNM=00&T1=131+1630&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&UREQC=3&UREQD=4
> and it looks like the 68 pin side won't accept the male-ness of my tape
> drive.
> 
> I look at this adapter
> http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2000042515272922&GEN9=5CG0
> 1&PAGLEN=10&FNM=00&T1=131+1640&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&UREQC=3&UREQD=4
> and it looks like the 50 pin side won't plug into the cable that already
> exists in the machine on the SCSI chain.
> 
> Can anyone help me on this? Do I just have to buy one of these adapters and
> then buy a gender changer for it or something?
> 
> Thanks for anyhelp!
> 
> Matt
> 
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