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From: pcolby@kitten.prime.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie Hard disks
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Date: 6 Oct 89 18:03:28 GMT
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In article <15917@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden) writes:
>
>    In fact, I happen to think that the 25-pin connector cable that the
>La Cie has is a better idea all around, since that's the connector in
>the back of the Mac.  As someone who works at Dartmouth repairing
>peoples' hard drives, and therefore hooking them up and unhooking them
>alot, it would be wonderful if there were only one kind of connector
>and hence only one kind of cable.
>
>    For the technical folks out there:  Is there a reason for the 50-pin
>SCSI connection that seems to be standard?
>
yes, it IS the standard (as defined in the ANSI standard for SCSI). In fact,
as has been mentioned many times before on the net, the mac's DB25 SCSI is
highly NON-standard.
	However, as far as I know, the TYPE of 50 pin connector to use for
SCSI is not defined in the standard. The Centronics style connector seems
to be as close to a default standard as anything though I have also seen
a DB50 used as well as an IDC style connector.
	Peter Colby

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