18 Apr
1999
18 Apr
'99
6:37 a.m.
On Apr 17, 13:57, Sellam Ismail wrote:
to
Subject: Re: Apple HAL XEBEC controller
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> Does it need any other software (like a formatting disk)? The on-board
4K
> EPROM contains only the strings "(C) HAL
COMPUTERS LTD 1983", "A/XHAL
> SHARED RESOURCE WINCHESTER SYSTEM", "NOT CONNECTED", and "SRS
ERROR",
so I
guess there
would have been a floppy with it, originally.
What in these strings leads you to believe it would have been connected a floppy? It was strictly a hard drive interface.
Erm, nothing, Sellam. I *didn't* suggest it could *connect* to a floppy
drive; I think there may have been a supplementary floppy disk containing
(at least) a formatter, since those are the *only* strings in the ROM. It
looks like it's just boot/driver code, so I think there must be some other
way to format the (winchester) drive.
I know you have a lot of Apple ][ stuff. Anything like this? Do you have
a pinout for any contemporary Apple ][ SASI/SCSI interface?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York