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68-pin to 50-pin adapters question

Posted by: Renegade on 2013-03-14 13:27:00 Hi guys, Most of us use this kind of 68-pin to 50-pin adapter: (both ends are male) They aren't that expensive, but I have found cheapers models of that kind : (both ends are female) My question is : will the latter work if plugged bewteen a mac 68k mobo and a 68-pin scsi flatcable? Thanks in advance.

Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-03-14 19:05:29 I don't see why not.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-03-14 20:22:44 That's not quite exactly what it's intended to do. It should work fine in a vertical connector, but I don't know about a horizontal one. I've got one of these, it'll make it easy for the CD-ROM in the Radius 81/110 to live in harmony with adapted SCA Drives, all using the narrower 68 pin internal cables.

Posted by: Renegade on 2013-03-15 12:21:09 Thanks guys. I'll give a try and will post the results here. 😉

Posted by: PowerPup on 2013-03-15 12:44:20 Actually, that's exactly what I'm doing in my PowerMac 6100. I've got two female 50pin to 68pin connectors (one of the motherboard and the other on the CD-ROM drive) using a 68-pin SCSI cable.That way I could use one of my 68pin 4GB Compaq SCSI drives and partition it with both Mac OS and MkLlinux and it works great. 🙂

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