23 Apr
2006
23 Apr
'06
9:03 p.m.
has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
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25 Apr
25 Apr
4:16 a.m.
Hi, Chris,
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On 23-Apr-06 at 21:03 Chris M wrote:
has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
I've seen plenty of these. They're very basic cards, designed as a dedicated
interface for SCSI-based HP scanners. They have no BIOS or firmware, and I question if
they will work with anything outside of the original HP scanner support software.
I would, admittedly, be curious to know how a Windows 2000 machine reacts to the
installation of such a card. I believe the 53C400 is supported, but I can't recall for
certain.
Happy tweaking.
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26 Apr
26 Apr
3:07 p.m.
dude, my gosh, had no intention of squeezing it into a
W2K box. Was hoping it would function as a hard disk
controller (kinda figured it was proprietary though,
not unlike the scsi cards Iomega supplied for their
ZIP drives).
While on the topic of old scsi's, which hard drives
wouldn't be compatible with an 8-bit scsi card?
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has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much
else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting
the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
I've seen plenty of these. They're very basic
cards, designed as a dedicated interface for
SCSI-based HP scanners. They have no BIOS or
firmware, and I question if they will work with
anything outside of the original HP scanner support
software.
I would, admittedly, be curious to know how a
Windows 2000 machine reacts to the installation of
such a card. I believe the 53C400 is supported, but
I can't recall for certain.
Happy tweaking.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies --
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it
have been equipped with surreal ports?"
28 Apr
28 Apr
11:49 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
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I somewhere have a similar card that originally came with an HP Scanjet
IICX color scanner. I did successfully get it running under Linux and
talking to a HDD and maybe a CDRom. Be aware that it most likely has NO
DMA support and will be extremely slow.
J Brian Ismay
jismay at unixboxen.net
1:08 p.m.
Chris M wrote:
has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
I think you'll find those switches are for setting the I/O port and IRQ.
This card pretty much matches the description of a Trantaor/Adaptec T130B
(or AHA-130B) card, with the exception that the 130B also has a few more
switches for setting the base address of the optional boot ROM. I suspect
that the drivers for same will work. I've got the DOS driver if you need
it.
Cheers,
Chuck
29 Apr
29 Apr
10:48 a.m.
sure if you got it handy, send it over. Not sure the
thing will handle hard drives (although one responder
said he got it to, with modern s/w though). There are
other *8 bit* scsi cards of course. I just liked the
simplicity of this one. I'll bet there are scores of
NCR chips to be found still. I believe my Ampro little
board/186 (actually has a v40) uses something similar,
but in a different package.
I was elated to find out that the SGI Indigo 2's use
the same 80 pin (SCA?) connector that these drives
have that I just bought. The sleds converts 50 pin
scsi to that though. Read somewhere that the I2's will
work with any type of scsi drive, as long as it isn't
HDV (High Differential Voltage). But could an old
8-bit scsi card (let's leave out the HP for now) work
with as many types of drives?
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has an NCR 53c400 chip, an als245, and not much
else.
4 dip swiches, presumably (hopefully) for setting
the
id. I have plans for this bad boy...
I think you'll find those switches are for setting
the I/O port and IRQ.
This card pretty much matches the description of a
Trantaor/Adaptec T130B
(or AHA-130B) card, with the exception that the 130B
also has a few more
switches for setting the base address of the
optional boot ROM. I suspect
that the drivers for same will work. I've got the
DOS driver if you need
it.
Cheers,
Chuck
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