[H-GEN] SCSI card and cable; DB25 female plug on scanner!

[Stuart Longland]

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Quoting Russell Mathews <russellm at humbug.org.au>:

> Hi ALL,
> 	I have just had repaired, the power supply on a SCSI scanner.  I
> am in need of a SCSI card and cable to enable me to use the scanner.  The
> scanner has a DB25 female plug on it....

We don't have anything of that sort but they were quite common a couple of years
ago.  (can't recall exactly when).  You can get DB25 to HD50 cables to connect
that sort of scanner into a SCSI card.  I believe we got ours from the computer
section in Myer in the city.  This is sort of what the cables look like...

___________________________  _______________________________
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 \_'_'_'_'_'_'_'_'_'_'_'_/  ||_\'''''''''''''''''''''''''/_||
          DB25                            HD50

The HD50 is quite common on older SCSI cards, and is similar to the HD68
connectors that you see internally (only a little smaller).  They usually have a
couple of clips that hold them in place.  I'd be suprised if they aren't available.

We needed a cable like this for much the same reason.  We had a UMAX S-6E SCSI
II Scanner, which we wanted to use on our Linux box.  It was supported by Linux,
but the UDS-11 ISA SCSI card that came with it, wasn't.  We happened to have a
bracket that went from the larger 50-pin internal SCSI connectors (look like an
overgrown IDE connector) to a HD50 connector.  So using this, we were able to
hook it up to the SCSI card directly (sharing the bus with the CD burner).

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