SCSI-ness

[Sean]

I think its male on the drive and male on the 50-pin cable. The
determining factor would be the outside not the pins themselves. 
so you would need a 50F<->68F adapter. 



On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Adam McDougall wrote:

> 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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