I, too, was forced to be creative when I ran out of the cable that you
need. If properly pried, the vents on the side of the 3100 case can
accomodate the internal 50 pin scsi cable and a power lead pushed through
them. That, though, is ugly.

-Ash

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Douglas S. Meade wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get NetBSD installed on one of my 3100s, and I haven't
> yet been successful with the net boot, although I've got this to work
> with both DS/25 and DS/240.  I do have some spare external SCSI disks
> with working NetBSD systems however.  But I can't seem to find a cable
> to hook to the port on the back of the 3100.  The port is male, with 
> 68 pins.  I contacted several mail order places, such as ComputerGate,
> and Dalco, to see if they had a SCSI cable available for this type of 
> connector, but no luck.  What's the normal procedure to hook up a 
> disk to one of these fellows?
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
>