puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia) (06/05/90)
I am looking for what can best be describe as a gender changer for a scsi cable. The adapter is a plastic bar with a set of 50 male pins on each side. Would anyone know who makes these, and could you supply me with a part number and a price/per adapter. Thanks in Advance Paul Puglia Dept of Civil Engineering Columbia University puglia@cucevx.civil.columbia.edu
eaw@Alliant.COM (Eric Woudenberg) (06/06/90)
In article <1990Jun4.181954.8756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia) writes: >I am looking for what can best be describe as a gender changer for a scsi >cable. The adapter is a plastic bar with a set of 50 male pins on >each side. There is a SCSI "T" adapter made by 3M which would work, it's got two males and a female molded into a single plastic connector. It's from AP Products (part of 3M), part number 922576-50-I, and it's $15. You can get it from any place which supplies 3M ribbon cables and connectors (it's usually a one day order). They may also have a simple male-male connector. Eric Woudenberg
cdl@mplvax.EDU (Carl Lowenstein) (06/06/90)
In article <3888@alliant.Alliant.COM> eaw@alliant.Alliant.COM (Eric Woudenberg) writes: >In article <1990Jun4.181954.8756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia) writes: >>I am looking for what can best be describe as a gender changer for a scsi >>cable. The adapter is a plastic bar with a set of 50 male pins on >>each side. >There is a SCSI "T" adapter made by 3M which would work, it's got two >males and a female molded into a single plastic connector. It's from >AP Products (part of 3M), part number 922576-50-I, and it's $15. You >can get it from any place which supplies 3M ribbon cables and >connectors (it's usually a one day order). They may also have a >simple male-male connector. A straight-through male-male connector won't work because it swaps the odd-numbered pins with the even-numbered pins. So watch out. It took me a week or more to figure out why this didn't work. Fortunately nothing burned up except my patience. A continuity check would have told the story, but I was looking for cable-length problems. There are funny-looking male-male connectors available, that do the odd-even swap. I have bought them from Inmac but can not find them in the latest catalog. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mplvax!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu clowenstein@ucsd.edu