Re: CMS SCSI II card [1986] and hd

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Robert Rivkin (rrivkin@umbc.edu) wrote:
: I got [stuck with?] the above card and 40-meg hard drive.  The card, when
: installed, does something so that the system 3.5 disk will not boot past
: the middle of the thermometer.  Any ideas what I might be able to do to
: either check and/or repair this?  Is this card even usable today?

: The hard drive is by seagate.  It has 2 25-pin centronics, like the zips
: do.  It also has a bank of microswitches to change the i.d., numbered 1
: through 8.  I have connected this to my ramFAST, which either doesn't see
: it, or thinks it's a SASI sider hd.  Can anyone supply me with a
: combination of dipswitch settings that may allow me to use this drive?  

It may be that the hard drive is on an unusual interleave.  Try
reformatting with the RamFAST on-board utility.  Also, you may 
want to change the option on the RamFAST on whether it supplies
termination power to the SCSI bus (DIP switch 3, I think).


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