Macintosh: External SCSI Port Pinouts

What are the pinouts for the 25-pin SCSI port on the rear of most desktop Macintosh computers?
All Macintosh computers with the external 25-pin SCSI port have the pinouts listed below. Note that the Macintosh II and Macintosh SE do supply terminator power on pin 25, unlike the SCSI port on the Macintosh Plus.
Pin
Signal name
Signal description
1
REQ/
Request
2
MSG/
Message
3
I/O/
Input/Output
4
RST/
SCSI bus reset
5
ACK/
Acknowledge
6
BSY/
Busy
7
GND
Signal ground
8
DB0/
Data bit 0
9
GND
Signal ground
10
DB3/
Data bit 3
11
DB5/
Data bit 5
12
DB6/
Data bit 6
13
DB7/
Data bit 7
14
GND
Signal ground
15
C/D/
Common/Data
16
GND
Signal ground
17
ATN/
Attention
18
GND
Signal ground
19
SEL/
Select
20
DBP/
Data parity
21
DB1/
Data bit 1
22
DB2/
Data bit 2
23
DB4/
Data bit 4
24
GND
Signal ground
25
TPWR
Terminator power

IMPORTANT: Because the SCSI port is a DB-25 connector, it looks like a RS-232 port. It is NOT a RS-232 port. Do NOT plug an RS-232 device into the SCSI port. Doing so will most likely damage the SCSI chip on the logic board.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012