> [...] punch the second DB9 hole [...] Argh! Not to pick on this post - or poster - in particular; I've just been seeing this mistake over and over, and it's finally gotten to the "minor rant outburst" point.
That is not a DB9! The DB shell is the size used for 25-pin connectors; the size used for 9-pin serial is the DE shell. (DA is the 15-pin size used for peecee joystick ports and AUI Ethernet; DB is the 25-pin kind used for standard serial ports and peecee parallel ports; DC is a 39-pin size most people rarely/never see; DD is a three-row 50-pin size used for Sun-2-era SCSI and nothing else I know of, though there probably is something; and DE is the size used for 9-pin serial and 15-pin "VGA" video. Other sizes exist, such as the 19?-pin size used by NeXT video, but as far as I know they don't have Dx names.) I have never seen a DB9 - a connector designed with only nine pin positions in a DB-size shell - and, while I would hesitate to say no such thing exists, it certainly is very far from common. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
