Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "John Blackburne" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.mac Subject: Re: Those darned elusive cables... Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:49:26 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <71anug$fj67@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <363452DC.7155@bton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-pm04-14.ndirect.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (297) ---------- In article <363452DC.7155@bton.ac.uk>, Ben J wrote: >I've just recently joined the yaroze family, but am having trouble >connecting to the console via my mac. I've just spent about =A320 trying >to get cables, but it would appear they don't work. I get an error >message from PSComUtil on connecting, which tells me there was a >hardware interrupt or something similiar. So where is the problem? >Yaroze, cable, or Mac? Cable is my guess, as AFAIK there's only one sort of Yaroze and Mac serial hardware is pretty standard. I too was worried about this when my Yaroze arrived four weeks ago, but the first thing I tried worked fine. To connect my Mac [PowerBook 3400] to the NY I use three things. First the cable that comes with the NY. Then a DIN-8 to 25 pin high speed modem cable, which I bought many years ago from MacZon= e in Hong Kong for use with high speed modems. The difference between this an= d other cables is it has a connection for hardware handshaking, required for reliable connections above 9600bps to modems. The cable is unbranded but it's a pretty standard Mac part. The third thing is a db boeder 'Adapter/T D-Sub 9 - D-Sub 25' connector, which connects the NY cable's 9 pins to the Mac cable's 25. On the back it says 'Connectors: 9-pin D-Sub plug/25-pin D-sub socket', but I ignored that and just pulled it out of the box before buying to make sure it was what I wanted. It cost =A34.99 from the local Tempo superstore. John