mday@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day) (03/22/90)
I need a cable to connect a Sun SPARCstation 1 to a Sony Magneto Optical Drive. We would like to have the capability of sharing this drive between our Macs and SPARCstations, but I am having trouble finding the correct cable for the SPARCstation end of things. The drive itself has the AMP CHAMP "centronics" style connector, while the SPARCstation has a miniature 50 pin connector (I don't know the official name of this). The best our normal vendor can do is come up with the connectors themselves, but they don't have the necessary pin out information to construct the cable. Any suggestions as to alternate cable vendors, or sources for the pin outs for both the SPARCstation and the Sony drive would be greatly appreciated. ---------- Mark Day Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry mday@zeno.mmwb.ucsf.edu University of California, San Francisco ..ucbvax!ucsfcgl!mday
michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) (04/09/90)
In article <13463@cgl.ucsf.EDU> mday@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day) writes: > >I need a cable to connect a Sun SPARCstation 1 to a Sony Magneto Optical >Drive. We would like to have the capability of sharing this drive between >our Macs and SPARCstations, but I am having trouble finding the correct >cable for the SPARCstation end of things. > >The drive itself has the AMP CHAMP "centronics" style connector, while >the SPARCstation has a miniature 50 pin connector (I don't know the >official name of this). The best our normal vendor can do is come up with >the connectors themselves, but they don't have the necessary pin out >information to construct the cable. > >Any suggestions as to alternate cable vendors, or sources for the pin >outs for both the SPARCstation and the Sony drive would be greatly >appreciated. We got ours from: Monster Cable 101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107 Telex: 470584 MSCYUI Fax: (415) 896-1745 The cable comes in a "MacCable" box, with both the box and the cable itself labeled as if it had a centronix male connector one both ends. Apparently the centronix/db50 cable is low enough volume that they didn't print up a box for it. I have pinouts around here somewhere for mac DB-25 / Cen 50 and Sun DB-50 / Cen50 conversions if anybody is interested.
michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) (04/09/90)
In article <13463@cgl.ucsf.EDU> mday@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day) writes: > >I need a cable to connect a Sun SPARCstation 1 to a Sony Magneto Optical >Drive. We would like to have the capability of sharing this drive between >our Macs and SPARCstations, but I am having trouble finding the correct >cable for the SPARCstation end of things. By the way, WATCH OUT on sparc archetecture boards from Sun, especially the Sun-4. Some of them have the terminator power pin grounded at the CPU board, and you can blow the fuse / protector on the drive (or blow something else if the drive is also non-conforming, or melt the insulation on one of the wires) if you just plug in to one of these with a cable that connects that line.