It turns out this is the DRV11-WA (Module M7651) which is a dual wide,
Q-bus, DMA capable, 16 bit I/O port. (Very cool as far as I am concerned).
I actually found another one of these in my spares bin so I've actually got
two.
Megan's field guide page makes it out to be 18/22 bit compatible so that it
can probably DMA into and out of pretty much any part of Q-bus memory
space. The MicroVAX will let me map pages of its memory into the Q-bus
space so I can presumably DMA things out of VAX memory and into some
peripheral.
This differs from the M7941 which is also a 16 bit interface but does not
do DMA.
I've got the 1980 LSI-11 peripherals handbook which talks about the DRV11-B
which is quad wide (M7950) which appears to be the predecessor to this
board, it can only do 18 bit DMA.
I'll bet a zillion dollars that the pin out on the two connectors is
identical :-)
So if I can figure out when the 7651 was introduced I might be able to find
a handbook that covers it. I've got a spare 1980 handbook I'd be willing to
trade for a 1985 or thereabouts.
And to whomever was wondering about MSCP. No, I don't expect to do MSCP! I
built a "bit banger" SCSI interface for the Z80 once out of a PIO chip and
a couple of flip flops. If you make simple assumptions like SCSI-1, Only
one target on the bus besides you, asynch I/O only, etc. It isn't hard to do.
--Chuck
At 07:16 PM 5/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
How will the DRV-11 help you hook into MSCP? It's a good and VERY flexible
Who said anything about MSCP. I assumed he was going to make a
hardware-compatible SCSI interface, and then write a special driver for
whatever OS he's running to set the lines to the appropriate states in
the right sequence. No reason why that wouldn't work -- plenty of the
older DEC disk drives weren't MSCP devices.
card, but not intended for use as a file device.
It does, of course,
support
DMA.
Some DR(V)-11 versions support DMA (the -W does, and certainly the DR11-B
does -- is there a Qbus version of that?). Others don't.
-tony