[Tfug] SCSI cable adapter

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Adrian,

--- Adrian <choprboy at dakotacom.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 28 October 2006 11:06, Bexley Hall
> wrote:
> > One side needs to be DB25S (female) and the other
> > side needs to be HD50P (male).
> >
> > I *think* I can hack together a workaround using
> > a similar adapter -- but it has the wrong gender
> > SCSI connector on it.  I.e. it has DB25S on one
> > end and HD50S on the other.  So, to use it, I
> > would have to connect it's HD50S to the
> peripheral's
> > HD50S using a standard male-male HD50 cable.
> > (I guess this is probably how it is *expected*
> > to be used  :<  I just don't want to put an
> > EXTRA pair of connectors in the overall cable).
> 
> Hmmm... My first thought was to go the other way, a
> HD50P<->DB25P with a 
> DB25S<->DB25S gender bender. I "might" have the
> gender bender in my box of 
> parts from a cable I had to hacked together a few
> years ago. If not, you can 
> probably pick up the gender bender over at SWS...
> They have a Wall-O-Cables.

I can do it with the extra cable (mentioned above).
But that approach -- as with yours -- adds an
extra set of connectors to the cable (which is
never "A Good Thing"  :<  )

I guess I'll start digging through catalogs to see
what folks are selling...

Thanks!
-don


 
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