>Hello: I've got a dandy Sony CD-ROM drive which also doubles as a discman.
>Its SCSI connector is a square thing that will only connect to powerbooks.
>Was an adaptor ever made to allow such PB SCSI peripherals to connect to
>DB25 SCSI jacks? I'd like to be able to use this unit on the older macs in
>my office. If so, where to find?
I'd say you have roughly zero chance of ever finding anything with a female
HDI-30 port on it other than a Powerbook, including the adaptor this would
require. A better path might be to come at the problem from the other end,
figuratively and literally; is the cable hardwired to the drive, or does it
use yet another type of connector?
If the other end has a little flat 50-pin thing (Sun type HD50, sometimes
erroneously called a SCSI-2 connector) you can find a cable pretty easily,
though not cheaply. If it's something proprietary to Sony you may be able
to buy or rig an HD50 or DB25 (older desktop Mac) replacement cable. If it
appears hardwired you might try opening up the drive and seeing whether
there's actually a more standard connector inside.
If it really is hardwired (sick, dude!), you may be out of luck unless
you're willing to expend significant effort and time - I'd be more inclined
to just buy a more standard external drive, especially as the Sony probably
isn't faster than 6x or 8x anyway and an 8x external is pretty cheap on
eBay or Usenet (cheaper than some of the cables mentioned above!).
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