> Hardly.  The drive comes with a cable designed to connect it to a
> Macintosh; it's male DB25 on each end, but is _not_ symmetric: flip the
> cable end-to-end and it won't work.

HMMMMMMM.  Does the Iomega drive have switchable termination?  Does it have
an external terminator widget that you plug into the unused port?

If the answer to both questions is "no", that *could* be the reason the
cable isn't symmetric -- one end might contain terminators.  Yuck.