26 Jun
2006
26 Jun
'06
5:01 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6/26/2006 at 10:22 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, that was my thought too - from memory, problem is that you really need
more data lines than are available (I can't remember if you run out of inputs
or outputs now) so it's not as trivial as an 8 bit data port and some SASI
control lines; you end up having to latch control signals and it gets a bit
messy :-(
Two parallel ports would make life easy, and I'm tempted to go that route
purely for my own situation - I just don't like the fact that it makes things
less portable (so I can't take cable + software to the museum, say, and do
archival work there)
If the same model bridge board with the same ROM
is used though, I can't
imagine it'd be a problem. [1]
True, and if I had that situation, I'd probably just hook up a parallel
port and write a driver to wiggle the signals rather than try to fool with
the onboard ROM. I recall trying(out of idle curiosity) to see if an
Adaptec 1540 host adapter would recognize the OMTI card and the result,
IIRC, was that it wouldn't.
Been there myself, and that's my recollection too. Newer Adaptecs aren't any
'better' in that respect. I think the couple of Future Domain boards I found
still used Adaptec chipsets so also didn't work. That left the SCSI interface
on my PAS16 sound card, but by that point I was fed up swapping boards around :-)
cheers
Jules