barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (02/10/90)
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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