[Coco] Looking for information on a SCSI cable for the Ken-ton system

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 November 2021 13:32:50 TL Steege wrote:

> I have a CoCo Ken-ton 85 meg SCSI drive with a controller which
> includes a Seagate ST296N 85MB 3600 RPM 5.25" SCSI drive but, it is
> missing the custom cable between the case and the controller pak. If
> anyone has any schematics for the cable's construction, it would be
> greatly appreciated. The CoCo Archive has the manual but unfortunately
> nothing about the cable.
>
> https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Ken-T
>on%20SCSI%20Interface%20-%20Installation%20and%20Setup%20manual%20(FARN
>A%20Systems).pdf
>
Please, the length of the link did not survive the wordwrapping in your 
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characters long with 9 illegal spaces.
 
legal only in a 100% microsoft environment, but they were 20 years
late in trying to rewrite the net rules that govern all this.

> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Terry

Never had a kenton, Terry, did have a disto for quite a while, which 
split a 34 wire cable and put it on the outside 17 connectors at each 
end of a std 50 pin scsi-ii connector. This however destroyed the 
handshaking between drives so when I felt the need to address more 
drives, I bought Marks M's (cloud-9) controller, which I think is 
now discontinued. It has no problems addressing 2ea, 1 gigabyte seagates, 
and could address all 7 if they were present. I tested it by moving my 
2nd drive to all available addresses, worked fine. 

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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