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From: ehrhart@aai8.istc.sri.com (Tim Ehrhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Mac SCSI disks on Sun 3/50's
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 14 Mar 89 05:11:04 GMT
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by ultra!shj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Jay):
> Does anyone out there have first hand knowledge about connecting Macintosh
> disks to 3/50's?  The cost of 100 MB disks for Mac's is down to about
> $1000, so they would be very attractive if they work on Sun systems.

I have hooked many Jasmine (3rd party Mac disk vendor) drives up to Sun
3/50 and 3/60s. The only rub was in the connector on the drive, it is the
Centronics style 50 pin connector. Just make a cable with Centronics style
on one end and D50 on the other end (100% straight through pinout) and
everything is cool.

Standard disclaimer applies, smoking hardware complaints to /dev/null.
I'm only saying it's worked many ( >5 and <10 ) for me.

	Tim Ehrhart (ehrhart@spam.istc.sri.com)
	SRI International