26 Nov
2008
26 Nov
'08
12:34 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
Oops.
What I had were probably bridges to use an MFM drive on a SCSI
controller
Yeah, or SASI.
Incidentally, I kept finding DoA Adaptec ACB4000 bridges - anyone else
had the same issue (and is there a typical failure mode for them)? I
had a few of them kicking around so just labeled the dead boards up
and shelved them, thinking I might get around to trying to fix them
one day. Perhaps there's some common fault that affects them, though...
You sure they are bad.... I know the ACB4000 was a different beast...
it did not support all of SCSI (The identify command as I recall was
one it did not). You definately won't plug it into a modern SCSI bus/
OS, and be playing with MFM drives plug and play.... Linux did have
some support I believe for this... but it may not be in there anymore.
SunOS obviously supported it (at least in 4.X).
-- Curt
Does anyone know of a 'bridge' converter that
would allow a scsi
disk to
interface to an MFM controller?
Omti made some. I already gave mine away
cheers
Jules