20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
5:34 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It looks like I'm acquiring more bus and tag
(s/3x0 parallel channel)
interface peripherals, and got to thinking... it'd be fairly neat if I
could hook a peripheral up to something, like say, a PC, and get it to
talk to Hercules.
It's not terribly difficult to find a cable pinout, but I haven't yet
been able to find a description of the protocol used on the channel
cables (or even what voltage spec, etc, they have).
Does anyone have a copy of this they could make available? Or, is it
already available somewhere that my searching hasn't found? If I had
lots (more) spare time, I might think about reverse engineering
something, but I'd rather start with a spec of what things are supposed
to look like.
You do know that the ARTIC960 parallel channel adapters Just Work(tm) in
AIX, right?
Peace... Sridhar