Apple SCSI TermPWR; Was Re: This is funny (ebay)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Feb 24 12:47:25 2002

> > When talking about the DB25 end, it is ALMOST standardized.
> > At one time, Trantor (now subsumed by Adaptec) warned about using cables
> > intended for Apple with their cards. It was an issue of whether
> > "TermPWR" was connected.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:
> OK, maybe my deal is related to that, maybe not. It's been bugging me
> for a while, though.

I don't think that it is the same problem. I think that Trantor's
problem was that their external parallel to SCSI gadgets (T338,
etc.) needed TERMPWR, and some of the existing cables that had the right
connectors (serial and centronics :-) didn't pass TermPWR through.
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 12:47:25 GMT