On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:19:04AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> No, it's a female DB25 connector. Exactly the same as an LPT port...
And if you plug a parallel printer cable into one you can get very interesting
pyrotechnics - saw this done once - the smoke was mighty, and a diode (IN 18
maybe ? - something quite clunky anyway) was completely incerated.
Interestingly enough, when the diode was replaced and the smut cleaned off
teh SCSI card it worked fine :-)
Niall
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