15 May
2007
15 May
'07
7:04 p.m.
At 12:06 PM -0600 5/15/07, J Blaser wrote:
Included with the drive is a bare board that rumor has
it came from
a Micro Technology 'Liberator' tape backup subsystem. The
interesting part about this board is that it is also rumored to be a
DSSI-to-SCSI adapter. If true then I just maybe, sorta, kinda,
might have a way to connect SCSI hard disks and/or a CD-ROM drive to
my DECsystem 5400, which would be very, very nice.
You might look into "TD Systems" or "Viking" as the manufacturer as
well. I was thinking it might be like their SCSI boards, a rebadged
Viking, though with their name on the actual circuit board that seems
unlikely.
The big question is: can I really use this to connect
at least one
SCSI hard disk or CDROM to my system?
It seems unlikely. You might get lucky, but my guess is that the
firmware will specifically only support tape drives, and potentially
only the drive it came with.
Zane
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