Cabling Rimfire to Super-eagle

[vahe at math.ucla.edu]

We've just bought a Ciprico Rimfire (RF3223) controller for evaluation.
The Sun we want to put it in is a 3/180 with a Fujitsu Super-eagle
(M2361), which we bought assembled as a unit.  The controller currently in
the system is a Xylogics 451.

Cabling has become a stumbling block. The 2361 has a metal wall in the
back (presumably for RF protection) from which a shielded cable goes to
the edge of the controller.  (All connectors are large D-type jobbies.)
The only catch here is that the connectors aren't large enough to support
all the pins in an SMD A cable, so they've split the "logical" A cable
into two "physical" A cables.  The Rimfire has a large plug for a D-type
connector on the edge of the card.  But Ciprico doesn't make a cable that
goes from their controller to the "split" A cable connectors on the 2361.
As far as we've been able to determine, nobody else does either.

I'm certain our situation isn't unique, so I'd like to ask anybody that
has been faced with this: what did you do?  Did you find somebody who
makes the cables?  Build your own custom ones?  You can use ribbon cables
from the surface of the board -- did you go that route?  Any problems
getting the metal wall off the back of the 2361?  Please mail replies
directly to me, as we're eager to get this thing going one way or the
other as soon as we can.  Thanks.

--Vahe Sarkissian, UCLA Math. Sci.		vahe at math.ucla.edu