[ILUG] [OT] Looking for 25 pin SCSI card

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:19:04AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:

> No, it's a female DB25 connector.  Exactly the same as an LPT port...

And if you plug a parallel printer cable into one you can get very interesting
pyrotechnics - saw this done once - the smoke was mighty, and a diode (IN 18
maybe ? - something quite clunky anyway) was completely incerated.
Interestingly enough, when the diode was replaced and the smut cleaned off
teh SCSI card it worked fine :-)




Niall