1) If you get far enough a source of 25 pin D style SCSI cables is someone who still has a Zip drive. They were delivered with such a cable. Anything wired for RS232 serial or peecee parallel port is doomed to failure.
2) Some Macs - all portables I'm afraid - had a way to start them up in "target" mode. That way a machine could become what you want with its disk being available to a desktop box. A target machine had to be sure that it didn't respond to requests on SCSI 7. Device 7 is always the computer if there is only one SCSI bus and that would surely be a conflict with two fully operating motherboards. This 8500 has two SCSI busses and might connect the way you want on the second - external - bus where the target disk could remain ID-0 without opening the box. -- --> As a citizen of the USA if you see a federal outlay expressed in $billion then multiply it by 4 to approximate your share expressed in dollars. <-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
