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Also, what does this mean exactly? These unused wires should be connected together, or grounded to something? "Note: The connections 16-3, 11-39, 2-47, and 6-49 are opportunistic grounds, easy to make with paired conductors in a ribbon cable." (from...

Yes, the pin-out conversion docs I've seen don't mention the terminiation issue. So I just put some resistors inline with a couple pins on the connector? Sorry, I'm a bit of an electronics newbie.

Yeah that could be an issue. I called them and someone answered and did say it was "Micromac". However they don't sell that item any more.

Thanks for the info. I guess I can always go this route if I'm feeling lazy: http://www.micromac.com/products/portable_scsi.html

I have a portable that's been in my garage storage for about 15 years. I just had the battery rebuilt with new cells, and that seems fine. However, the Conner 40MB disk seems to spin up, spin down, spin up, spin down several times. Sometimes it stays spining and boots the system. Maybe a new...