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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: External SCSI disk cables
Message-ID: <11862@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 15:30:03 GMT
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In article <4352@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu writes:
> For those of you (everyone?) who bought a NeXTstation and are adding
> an external HD... you don't have to wait to get NeXT's cable (PN
> N7007).  Call up your favorite 3rd party HD company and order a SCSI
> cable for a SUN SparcStation.  The vendor I got mind from (Fast Access
> in Elmhurst, IL) called it a "mini-honda to centronics".  I bought a 6
> foot cable (2x the length of the NeXT's) and it works fine.

Hm.  All of my external drives need to use the flat ribbon kind of
SCSI connector, the kind many drives use internally.  Does anyone know
where I can get a "mini-honda to ribon" cable?  If not, I'll have to
get two cables to do the trick.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu