Re: Looking for HS SCSI Card Tech Ref (was SmartPort info)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <2prv04$49j@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>,
Steve Reeves <reevess@cse.fau.edu> wrote:
> In article <2pq476$esu@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca
> (Jerry Penner) writes: 
> >Where can I get one of these for the High Speed SCSI Card?  Does Resource
> >Central carry them? Anyone have a recent catalog from them?
> 
> Just happen to have a catalog here.  Let's see...
>     DA-010   Apple: Apple SCSI Card Reference   $15.00
> It doesn't mention if this is for the HS version or not.

It is - I ordered one last year.

It includes the following information:

- Introduction
- Hardware overview of the card
- Firmware (calling the card from an 8-bit environment)
- SmartPort call documentation (including CD-ROM audio calls for the
Apple CDSC, CDSC Plus and CD-150)
- An introduction to SCSI
- An overview of the GS/OS SCSI Manager

The card only documents the high-speed SCSI card.  The manual for the
original card is no longer available (I got mine from APDA in about 1988).

If you want to delve into the low-level side of the the card, you will
need a copy of the SCSI standards.  This manual only lists the
commands that the card supports - it doesn't explain what the calls do
or how to use them.  You need the SCSI standards for that.

The SCSI-1 standard is available from ANSI (or the equivalent body for
countries other than the USA).  If you don't mind working from a draft
version of the standard, you can get it by anonymous FTP (see below).

You should also get a copy of the draft SCSI-2 standard.

Both draft standards are available by anonymous FTP from
rex.cs.tulane.edu, in the directory pub/scsi.  Get the 'index' file
and use this to work out which areas you need to look at.

The SCSI-1 draft standard are in Wordstar 3.3 format, which isn't too
hard to convert to normal text (just strip the high bits, and delete
any editor command lines).
-- 
David Empson
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