SCSI ?

[brunix]

I may not have looked hard enough, but I can't seem to find a external HD50 cable with more than 2 ends. I have a old scanner that has 1 HD50 Fem connector. I know little about SCSI and it sounds like the expernal devices will have 2 connectors or a switch to terminate. I am thinking with a 3 or 4 place cable I can terminate the end connector and get the scanner to work with a PCI scsi card.

[Tomteriffic]

Nope, you've looked hard enough On an external chain, you run from device to device with two-connector cables. Either the device itself has termination built in which you'll need to enable, usually by way of a switch, or on the SCSI "out" of the device, you need to put an external terminator (on the last device in the chain, of course).

Doesn't work like an internal cable would, with a gang of connectors on one cable.

[dunbar]

I'm no SCSI guru, but at this link, I see rounded cables with 4 and 5 connections... if these are 68 pin connectors, does internal make any difference?

Also, some external SCSI devices have 2 connections. In one case, one connector can be a termination, the other is the cable to the PC, -or- the termination can move up one device and in its place, a second cable can extend to the second external SCSI device.

[Tomteriffic]

Trouble with those is that an internal device connector is different from an external one. An external HD68 is nowhere close to an internal one, so you're still outta luck.

Same goes for internal vs. external 50 pins, except 50 is worse, you can have an internal 50, which looks kind of like an IDE connector, only wider, a Centronics, which looks like a 36 pin Centronic printer connector, only wider, and an HD50, which looks like an external HD 68, except it got left in the dryer too long. Maddening, for sure.