Do you own an ohm meter? Check the cable. Not only are there different configurations for the appletalk cable, but sometimes the wires are broken internally, usually near the connector. In making your own cable there are a number of thing to consider. 1. Cables are usually twisted pair. The signal wire and its return are twisted together. This tends to cnncel out external interference. If your use of the cable has a different pinout, the cancellation may not occur. 2. Rule of thumb: If you double the length of the cable, the guage of the wire should decrease by 2. (If the original cable was 28 guage, a cable twice that length should be 26 guage.) 3. A longer cable may need to be shielded, even if the original cable was not. 4. Significantly longer cables may need to be low capacitance. On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Bo Zimmerman wrote: > On 3/12/2016 1:13 PM, Michał Pleban wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Bo Zimmerman wrote: >> >>> The internal drive works fine in both cases. >> Thank you for testing. That is bad news :-( You don't happen to own >> another DIN8 cable, do you? > > OK, I'm going to tell you what happened, but I cannot explain it. > > The AppleTalk cable was a complete failure. > > The connectors look identical, right? The AppleTalk cable was only 3 feet > compared to the 10 foot 1521 cable. > > When the cable was connected without the 1565, the computer could no longer > even see the drive. > >> Regards, >> Michau. >> >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list >> > > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-03-16 20:00:12
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