[WinMac] Using a Mac Zip scsi with a PCMCIA adapter questions?

by way of Marc Bizer(dpointer[at]orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:24:18 +0200

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>Is there a scsi convertor to fit the mac scsi size?
There is a cable which connects regular Mac SCSI to Micro SCSI. I had a
Panasonic CD-ROm which was designed to run with a SCSI cable that plugged
into a PCMCIA slot. It actually was a PC Cd-ROM. The fitting coming out of
the CD-ROM was a micro SCSI. My biggest problem was that I did not know
what that port was called. The only thing I needed to use it with the Mac
was different drivers (I got the FWB CD-ROMToolkit to get the Mac driver
for that particular Panasonic model, because obviously the driver that came
with the drive was for a PC). I plugged the micro SCSI end into the CD-ROM
and the other end into the Mac desktop SCSI. I bought that connector at
either Best Buy or Computer Renaissance. It's a standard connector.

>Can I hook up the Mac zip to the PCMCIA connector?
The is a part offered by Iomega ($99) which allows you to do that. PCMCIA
is PCMCIA. It shouldn't matter whether you are using a slot on a Mac
Powerbook or a PC Laptop. It's a cross-platform standard, I believe.

>Will it cause any harm to the ThinkPad?
Don't know

Donna Pointer

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