8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 1999

I'm not as "into" the CompatiCard, which, by the way, I just recently sold
for a pretty good price, as I might be, but I do recall that there was
jumpering information in the manual.  What you nave to do is figure out what
the equivalent jumpering for an SA850 would have been.  I don't think there
was 850-specific information, but as I recall, the manual didn't suggest one
could use more than one 8" drive, either.  There's information on the
MicroSolutions web site, as I'm told.  Perhaps they can help you.

regards,

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stek &lt;bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: 8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform

...
 Dick (or anyone else) -

Would you have the jumper settings (default positions, definitions, etc.)
for a Shugart 860? DS0-3 I can figure out.  But the rest...

I have just added 2 8"ers to my AT via a Compaticard.  I have them working
as MS-DOS drives D: and E: just fine, but when I use Uniform it always
accesses the 360K B: drive instead of the 8".  I've got the Compaticard
manual, set up the board as the secondary, tertiary, and quartiary(?)
controller, tried EVERY combination of drive #'s (0-15), twisted and
straight cables, different cable combo's, different DS's on the drives, and
it STILL won't do anything but try to access the B: drive (when it accesses
anything at all) when I use Uniform to access the F:(CP/M) drive.  I even
tried ASSIGNing the B: drive.

So close but yet so far....

Bob Stek
bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com
Saver of Lost SOLs