CompuServe Drives: Custom firmware?

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Apr 20 13:42:08 CDT 2015


On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Rich Alderson wrote:

>
>> Or I can order an HVD card as all of my cards are bad anyway.
>
> http://www.scsi4me.com/scsi_hba-controller-cards_differential-hvd.html
>
> There is an Adaptec card and 2 LSI Logic (Symbios) cards, all under $100, all
> marked "used pull".
>

Thanks - Likely going to stockpile cards now!

>> Happen to have recommendations for an converter? I don't have a massive
>> surplus of HVD drives so I'll need 1 of those as well.
>
> I like the Paralan products (we used them in the XKL Toad-1 to connect a DAT
> drive--later a DLT--to the HVD bus), but they run $300-$500 each new.  I don't
> know whether there is a used market.
>

I managed to get 2 for $20ea!

Does the PANDA monitor include a patched MTBOOT?

>                                                                Rich
>
> Rich Alderson
> Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
> Living Computer Museum
> 2245 1st Avenue S
> Seattle, WA 98134
>
> mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
>
> http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
>

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