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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@hotmail.com

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:

> 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@...
> 
>

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.


On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Tristan wrote:

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:

> 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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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:

>
> 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.
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Tristan wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 
> > 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@...
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>