23 Mar
2012
23 Mar
'12
10:31 a.m.
Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen any documentation on the
Computer Logics ISA Pertec card?
23 Mar
23 Mar
7:57 p.m.
On Mar 23, 2012 3:39 PM, "Mark Kahrs" <mark.kahrs at gmail.com> wrote:
Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen any documentation on the
Computer Logics ISA Pertec card?
Register level documentation for writing directly to the card, or software
documentation for writing to the driver?
I have a PCTD-16 (well, actually 4 of them now) and I don't have any low
level hardware register information. I do have software interface
documentation for the real mode MS-DOS driver, which is a TSR which I
believe is called API.EXE. I have written a couple crude utilities to write
physical tapes from .TAP files and the other direction too. I have used
this with a Fujitsu M2444AC? and Qualstar 1052.
-Glen
8:57 p.m.
On 23 Mar 2012 at 19:57, Glen Slick wrote:
On Mar 23, 2012 3:39 PM, "Mark Kahrs"
<mark.kahrs at gmail.com> wrote: >
I've disassembled bits and pieces of the drive for the PCTD 16, but
there were several very different models of the cards. One used an
FPGA that required the host to download the firmware to the FPGA
before it was usable. I'm aware of the PCTD I, II and III (the FPGA
one) and the 16. I believe that there was also one for Microchannel
as well.
There was also at least one PCI Pertec Interface card, but I don't
believe it was Computer Logics/Chi that offered it--and I've never
held one in my hands.
The API to the driver software is documented, so once it's loaded,
you can run your own programs that call the API. But as to what's
inside the driver, well, that's a different issue.
None of the cards, as far as I've been able to tell, shares low-level
programming with the others.
--Chuck
Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen any
documentation on the >
Computer Logics ISA Pertec card?
Register level documentation for writing directly to the card, or
software documentation for writing to the driver?
I have a PCTD-16 (well, actually 4 of them now) and I don't have any
low level hardware register information. I do have software interface
documentation for the real mode MS-DOS driver, which is a TSR which I
believe is called API.EXE. I have written a couple crude utilities to
write physical tapes from .TAP files and the other direction too. I
have used this with a Fujitsu M2444AC? and Qualstar 1052.
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