Subject: Re: pinout ss2 memoryboard cable
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Michael Wanka <Tom@Wanka.at>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/08/2002 12:47:22
Hi,

On 7 May 2002 at 10:18, der Mouse wrote:

> Yes.  The pinout is trivial; it just connects corresponding pins on
> the two connectors (which are both dual-row headers with some small
> number of rows - five, I think?).

thanks for the info, I recently gave away my SS2 but did not think I 
would ever need this info. (there are two rows of four pins)

> What's nontrivial is getting the cable oriented correctly.  In the
> case of my hardware, there's no orientation aid on either end.  Of
> course, reversing both ends doesn't hurt, but reversing only one isn't
> too great.  Here's a message to suns-at-home from a few weeks ago
> about this very point:

The connectors here have a notch to prevent wrong cabling, but the pins 
itself are not numbered or such. But with your info I will get it to 
work.

Thanks

mike