[rescue] Identifying SCSI terminators

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Sun May 25 13:07:44 EDT 2025


I've got a small box of SCSI terminators.  Today I just went through it
because I had some to add to it.

I discovered, among other things, six devices which have two connectors
on them.  They might be multi-connector terminators, but they also
might be passive connector adaptors.

Does anyone know of any simple test I can do to tell which?  I'm
thinking of something along the lines of "between pins 19 and 44 should
be 75 ohms for a terminator, but will be open-circuit for a connector
adapter".  For passive terminators I could projbably dig up enough info
to figure that out myself - but what about active terminators?

They are all 50-pin.  Two of them are Centronics on each side, with
different sexes on the two sides.  Two of them are Centronics (the sex
with no wire retainers, the one tpyically used on cables - I'm not
clear which sex is considered which for Centronics) to HD50-F.  Two of
them are Centronics (the sex with wire retainers, the one typically
used on devices) to HD50-M.

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