15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
9:36 p.m.
A PC floppy cable certainly wouldn't work with the Little Boards I have, since
they use the standard floppy disk cable, which has no twists or cuts.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "ajp166" <ajp166(a)bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Ampro Little Board questions...
From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com>
belongs with it. Does anyone have a Series 100
box that could give me
the measurements and connector orientation & location of the floppy
cable?
Nothing magic. the last one I had used was from a PC.
Secondly, I don't know what "brand"
SCSI controller is built into the
board. The SCSI chip seems to be an NCR 5830, but that leads me nowhere
in relation to whether or not it's an Adaptec or other model controller.
I need to know the brand because the hd formatting software needs to
know it.
Your applying PC logic to it. It's is not Adaptec, i'ts just SCSI
(SCS1 or II) host and the NCR5380 is one of the early and common
chips used for that.
The brand applies to the "other" board, what is known as a SCSI
bridge board. Adaptec, Xybec, WD and other made them. You
need to know what board and what drive to do the formatting. If
you dont mind hacking Z80 code you can go frm an AMPRO LB
with SCSI to a smaller SCSI drive (64mb or less, or the rest will
be unused).
Allison