17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
12:44 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:17:01 -0800
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/16/2005 at 1:01 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
Were many of the PC Sound cards that had SCSI adapters 8 bit
though? Most of the earlier 8-bit sound cards had proprietary CD
interfaces and the later ones with IDE are mostly 16-bit. I have
a large collection of sound cards on hand, many with CD
interfaces, and I don't know if any of them are 8 bit cards.
This reminds me -- what's a good 8-bit SCSI
adapter for IBM PC
5150-class machines? I've got SCSI drives here that I'd like
to put to use, but all I have for this machine is a Western
Digital MFM controller.
Don't overlook things like PC sound cards--some had SCSI
adapters built on for CD drives. Old Bernoilli and scanner
adapters are anohter sounce, assuming that you can find drivers
for all of these--you need only get as far as ASPI support if
you don't want to boot the drives. There are ASPI-interfaced
general purpose drivers and utilities to go the rest of the way.
A clue to finding drivers is to locate the SCSI LSI
chip. The
Trantor T130, for example, has an NCR 53C400.
Cheers,
Chuck