Atari8man2004 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 I just bought a megafile 30 from Ebay and I was sad to see the HD cable is very short and I can't set it up behind the 1040st. Is there a a link to a seller that sells longer cables ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djglish Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 The DB19 cables are getting hard to find. I found one on Ebay but the seller is in the UK and with shipping it's about $85.00. The length is 31" https://www.ebay.com/itm/166521207074?hash=item26c56ff922:g:098AAOSwf9hliu9p You could possibly make one out of a DB25 cable and cut out the 6 pins (3 top and 3 bottom) on one side. You would also want to trim the sheilding down on that side. If you wan to attempt this make sure that the cable has all of the pins active and that they line up the same as your existing cable. You should be able to find a long DB25 without too much hassle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, djglish said: The DB19 cables are getting hard to find. I found one on Ebay but the seller is in the UK and with shipping it's about $85.00. The length is 31" https://www.ebay.com/itm/166521207074?hash=item26c56ff922:g:098AAOSwf9hliu9p You could possibly make one out of a DB25 cable and cut out the 6 pins (3 top and 3 bottom) on one side. You would also want to trim the sheilding down on that side. If you wan to attempt this make sure that the cable has all of the pins active and that they line up the same as your existing cable. You should be able to find a long DB25 without too much hassle. Thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zogging Hell Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I believe I read the Atari cables were short for a reason, i.e. any longer and they were unreliable. I would personally build yourself a stand that straddles the ST for the hard disk and monitor to sit on above it, that way you can use the short cable. You can make one out of three pieces of wood for next to nothing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Would this work? https://iec.net/product/apple-unidisk-drive-extension-cable3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
351cougar Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 external scsi had a max recomended of 2m (I believe) maybe it was better on later scsi iterations , this was 1.x sasi. I had a megafile as well and the short cable, maybe 0.5 m The ICD card I had used a longer one so I used that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max64 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 I found also this cable for Atari MEGAFILE from Ebay..it works. Made very well with shielded data cable https://www.ebay.it/itm/385573251238 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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