19 May
2002
19 May
'02
11:17 a.m.
Hi,
I have an EXABYTE 8500 drive with a Peripheral Vision daughter card
plugged into the back (along with the LCD display on the tape door) - I
am taking a guess that this card provides hardware compression to the
8500, but, without documentation, I am not sure how to configure it.
The board has six DIP switches, numbered 1-6 from right to left as
you look at the rear of the drive. 1-3 are the SCSI address, and
seemingly must match the SCSI address that was configured on the drive
itself - fair enough!
Switch 4 enables a menu allowing the selection of 2 and 5GB modes,
and I understand from googling that, if I was to have a 8500c then I
would also be able to bypass the drives internal compression from here.
Once more, this is so far perfectly reasonable.
All of which leaves switches 5 & 6, the reason for this message - can
anyone tell me what (if anything) they do?
Many thanks,
Dave.