wilson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Nathan Wilson) (09/26/90)
The company I work for recently purchased a SCSI exabyte tape drive for our soon to arrive SparcStation. A few days ago I heard of someone using an old Dec exabyte to backup their mac. I've done a bit of calling around and it appears that Retrospect from SuperMac (Dantz) will probably do the trick. Does anyone out there have any experience to confirm or deny this? In any case, I happy to make the test myself. My real problem is that I looked on the back of the exabyte and discovered that it doesn't have a CHAMP50 connector as I expected, but a DB50. I did some more calling around including to the manufacturer and nobody has a SCSI DB50 to DB25 cable. I have the pin outs for a disk drive with the same DB50 connector and the pin outs for the Mac, but I don't know what goes to what. All the same symbols appear, but I don't know if they just match up or whether some of them get swapped. Also there are two pin outs for the disk: a Single Ended Type (which has a bunch of extra grounds) and a Differential Type (which has a + and - form of each pin). What is the significance of the two forms? Is there an easy way to figure out what type the box is, and if it is the wrong type is it easy to fix? Nathan Wilson Teleos Research nathan%teleos.com@ai.sri.com