I searched and came up blank! is that the part number
or fru number? are you
sure thats the board number, or just a number for one of the components?
<< trying to find some info about an IBM ISA SCSI board which has
the following part number etched onto it 75H8895.
That's the board etch or part number. Surplus Direct's selling 'em
for $19.00. The one I have is 75H8895 (I think...)
The only info I could find on it follows from altavista and the guy
who posted it even works in the same group at Lucent (at a
different location)...
Bill
From rmabbot(a)lucent.comm (Rich Abbot)
Organization Lucent Technologies
Date Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:4:28 GMT
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi
Message-ID <34f4ab53.809548198(a)nntpa.cb.lucent.com>
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Howdy all,
I recently purchased two IBM SCSI cards from Surplus Direct. I've
seen a lot of controller cards in my time, but these are beaucoup
weird. Why?
- no onboard BIOS
- no internal 50-pin header, only an external Centronics-50
- unusual onboard parts (more below)
- no documentation of any kind
The unusual parts are: a power connector labelled JP3 which
is identical to the plastic 4-pin power connector commonly
found on disk drives; a momentary switch S1; an unusual
10-pin data connector labelled J4; and a large wirewound
power resistor (!).
The rest of the story goes as you would imagine. Called
SurplusDirect, they read the catalog to me, no additional
information. Called IBM, never heard of it, must be too
old to be in the database.
The part number on the board is 75H8895. The largest
chip is an Altera PLD device, an EPM032.
If anyone has made use of this card, I'd love to hear about it.
I am reluctant to hook it up to any of my SCSI stuff unless I
know tidbits like how that power connector JP3 is used.
Thanks in advance for any information!
Rich
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