Emax

Thank you both for you suggestions. I had a female going into the zip drive. It has another connection to hook up a male into the zip drive. I will purchase a male to male scsi cable, and see if this works. Thank you both very much for your insight,

Tony

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
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> I agree- you should get a 50-pin centronics to DB25 connector.
> 
> Getting an adapter than a 25pin to 25 pin cable gives possibility that the cable isn't a SCSI cable and has potentially a pinout difference....
> 
> Also, the Zip drive some are SCSI, some are parallel, and some are auto-switch that do both...
> It is important to know which you have.
> You never want to hook parallel devices to SCSi.
> You can damage the drive or the controller in the equipment.
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> On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Tristan wrote:
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> Hi Tony,
> 
> The cables you describe do not sound like standard SCSI cables. All the 25 pin SCSI cables I have 
> seen are male to male, i.e. have pins on each end. The 25 pin SCSI ports they plug into on the 
> computer/sampler/diskdrive are always female i.e. they have holes, not pins. 
> 
> On 50 pin to 25 pin SCSI adaptor cables the 25 pin connector will be male, so it can be plugged 
> directly into the drive/SCSI interface. I suggest you source one of these cables. One end plugs into 
> the ESI, the other end plugs into the ZIP drive with no adaptors or joiners.
> 
> And I am assuming your ZIP drive is the SCSI version and not the parallel port version.
> 
> Regards,
> Tristan 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21st, 2012 at 9:54 AM, tl200024 <tl200024@...> wrote:
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> > Hello. I just bought an ESI 4000, and I have a 100MB Ioemega Zip drive. I got
> > a 50 pin male to 25 pin female adapter to plug into the ESI 4000. I then
> > connected a 25 pin female to the zip drive, and the 25 pin male to the
> > adapter. I am unable to get the machine to recognize the drive. All that
> > happens is that almost all of the lights on the machine turn red, and there
> > is a blank message screen on the ESI 4000. Please let me know if you know
> > what I am doing wrong, and what I need to get. Thanks,
> > 
> > Tony
> > anthony_lawrence_1@...
> > 
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