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

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Feb 24 15:15:53 2002

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> > > 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.

Was there not a situation where, for a time, Trantor's DB-24 pinout
differed from the Mac's?
                                                 - don
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 15:15:53 GMT