Pro Tools III Disk I/O SCSI Cable needed

[Electrox]

I am putting together a PTIII system, when I discovered that I need the SCSI cable that connects the disk I/O to at least one SCSI drive. Anyone know where I can purchase one of these cables? Thanks.

[jeffwuollet]

Is this a nubus PT III system or a PCI system. I have one that I can give you if you need a PCI cable.

If you need a Nubus cable, see if you have enough room in your computer for a hard drive and use a SCSI ribbon cable to connect it internally.

[DigiTechSupt]

Hi,

You can order cables like this from tech support directly via telephone. You can find our contact information here:

http://www.digidesign.com/support/ts/policy/

Thanks,
Digidesign Tech Support

[Electrox]

Jeff, it is a PCI, You can email me at [email protected]. Put Digi in Subject line.
Digidesign, I will if Jeff doesn't!
Thanks to all!

[dreamsequence]

Jeff:

Any more PCI Disk I/O to 50-pin Centronics SCSI cables??? I could use one, too. Beige G3 running PT III TDM 5.0.1 on OS 8.6.

Thanks!

[John_Toolbox]

The connector on the card side is called a VHDCI-50, that should help with your search.

Never tried it, but I would bet that this will work:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Ft-VHDCI-5...ht_1421wt_1183

If your external drive uses a centronics connector, you'd just need to get a SCSI-2 to centronics adaptor.

[dreamsequence]

The VHDCI-50 actually has 68 pins, so it is too wide to fit the connector. It isn't an actual micro-SCSI, which only has 50 pins.

[John_Toolbox]

If it has 68 pins, then it's a VHDCI-68. The VHDCI-68 is more common for sure, it's used on ATTO dual channel SCSI cards. But if that auction is correctly advertising the cable as VHDCI 50, that's what the disk I/O uses. Only thing I'm not sure of is the offset of the screws, but the shell of the connector could probably be swapped out if the disk i/o uses centered screws.

[aka21stCentury]

The 50 pin Centronics SCSI cable (HP external drives and EMU's E-4, Emax HD, SCSI connections required these also) can have both clip on wire clamps that swing over to lock and threaded screw holes 7 centimeters center to center. HP made a ton of cases with a fan for this connector. I think my cable is 3 ft. Most came with the HP case w/ 3 ft cables.

That eBAY cable is 6 ft.

http://www.wegenermedia.com/

(Electrox, 86 your @ sign or beware of spammers).

I do have an Opcode Studio 3 to give away, buried under a pile a spaghetti packed so tight a worm couldn't #@%! (that is if I can find it)... yes it has the OMS eprom update with a pair of more spaghetti 6 ft mac serial cables.

[HSLand]

I'm on the hunt for one of these as well.