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First post, by mustagcoupe

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I bought one of those zip 250 "scsi to pcmcia" adapters off ebay. When i recieved it today i noticed that the connector is not a standard scsi connector. Its some form of half pitch centronics. I cannot find an adapter to convert it from that to one of the normal scsi connections that i can actually use. Can this even work as a standard scsi or is it locked to zip drives only. Is it worth trying to find an adapter or should i just return it and spend the extra money on a guaranteed to work scsi to pcmcia.

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Reply 1 of 3, by Vynix

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That's not a SCSI cable I'm afraid. It's just a "dumb" PCMCIA to IDE cable for the 2nd gen Zip250 drives.

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Reply 2 of 3, by mustagcoupe

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Well thats unfortunate. Since its pcmcia to ide if the seller doesnt want me to return it could i convert it to normal 44 pin ide and use it for testing laptop drives and cf cards.

Reply 3 of 3, by megatron-uk

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Yes, unfortunately those drives that look like USB/SCSI are really USB/IDE. I think they have the model number Z250USBPCM or some variation thereof.

The only SCSI Zip 250 is the Z250s or S2.

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