getting just the pinouts for the mini din 8 plug only gets me halfway to a md8->db9 crossover cable.  any further suggestions?
  --david


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:30:33 +0200
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote:

> david l goodrich <dlg@dorkzilla.org> wrote :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > lacking a monitor that connects to my Indy, i think my best bet will be to build a mini-din 8 to db-9 serial cable and console in.  unfortunately, i have been unable to piece together the required cable with the information on the netbsd serial webpage, SGI's seem to lack a DSN pin (iirc, it's been a weekend since i looked at it) ... any suggestions for how the pins should be connected?  thanks in advance.
> 
> AFAIK you only need to connect RX, TX and ground.
> 
> The pinout is here: http://www.meadow.net/pinouts.html#sgiMD8
> 
> Cheers,
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