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

[coco at jechar.ca]

I replaced all %20 's with a space and then fed the resulting URL to
bit.ly to shorten it the resulting URL is

https://bit.ly/3nVYhg5

that will take you to the manual.

The site https://bitly.com is excellent for that sort of thing.

Charlie


On 2021-11-04 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
> email agent. Please, when posting such links, put them inside a pair of
>  <>
> like this
> <https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Ken-Ton%20SCSI%20Interface%20-%20Installation%20and%20Setup%20manual%20
> (FARNA%20Systems).pdf>
> Even that may not work because there are %20=spaces in the link which
> give intervening software, including mine an opportunity to break the
> link at one of those spaces. I've tried several other encodings for
> this but cannot get rid of a linefeed at column 138 and this link is 
> 157
> 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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