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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Imagewriter II --> Amiga 1000 problem SOLVED
Message-ID: <4176@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 90 21:03:00 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	I wrote that I was having trouble getting my Amiga 1000 to talk
to an Imagewriter II.  I got a cable from Redmond Cable which I assumed
would work, and I tried all sorts of settings.

	Well, the cable was the culprit!  The pins on the 8M miniconnector
were set up backwards (mirror-image).  Redmond Cable says that the cable
must have been mislabeled, and offered to exchange it.

	I discovered this with a multimeter (great little gadget you
circuit-heads have there :-)), and by putting a null-modem cable (switches
pins 2&3 on DB25 side) between the Redmond cable and the Amiga.  Worked
great!

                                                        Dan

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