Need advice on external SCSI cable.

[oopblock]

I own a Yamaha 8x4x24 external SCSI-3 CD-RW with 50HD connectors. My SCSI adapter supports SCSI-3 and has 50HD connectors as well. I need a SCSI-3 50HD Male-50HD Male external cable, but I'm not sure which one to get or where to get it. Many cables that I've seen with the proper connectors only advertise that SCSI-2 is supported... does this make a difference?

Any advice on which cable to get and where to purchase online would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to spend as least as possible.

Thanks,
.max

 

[subman]

I have the exact same Yamaha external drive and I am using a cable between the 68 pin external connector on the Adaptec 2940uwPro card to the 50 pin on the external CDRW box without any high termination adapter as recommended by Adaptec (simply because these adpters are not available in my part of the world). The cable I am using is marked as a SCSI2 cable but I have no problems at all.. not with a single CDR/CDRW disk till today - and I must have burned over 200 disks on this drive already.

Before the Adaptec for a short while I used an Iwill SCSI card which had a 50 pin connector and with this setup I used a cable marked as a SCSI2 cable without any problems.

 

[obenton]

Good supplier at http://www.cablemakers.com/

 

[cloudchief]

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