Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI Cable Manufacture
Message-ID: <328@array.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 21:43:02 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.034336.23202@rfengr.com>
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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It doesn't even matter which side of the cable you crip the connector
on.  Just get pin 1 to the right place, and all will be happy.  SCSI
cables require termination at the ends, but the standard way of doing
that is by socketed resistor packs on the SCSI devices which you remove
from anything in the middle.  Thus, the cable has no special termination
requirements.  (Just watch the stub lengths!  T-junctions are very, very
bad!)

(If the connector isn't keyed, it's impossible to crimp it on to the
cable in the "wrong" way, although the little pin-1 triangle can be
misleading if it's on the pin 50 end of the cable.  I am assuming, of
course, that you are not one of those Ingenious Fools which make customer
support such an *interesting* job.)
-- 
	-Colin