RK07 Manual Dual Port?
tony duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Sat Nov 7 09:17:31 CST 2015
[2 'Interface and Timing M7706 cards in an RK07]
> The existence of two separate wire list pages in the schematic, and a
> quick look at the M7706 diagram output signals suggests that this would
> *not* work - that the output lines of the two M7706 cards are wired
> together on a single-port drive and driven by ordinary TTL, and that a
> dual-port drive had different wiring on the backplane, even though the
> card cages are the same and the backplane itself is the same.
I am pretty sure you're rignt, this won't work and may damage the M7706
boards due to TTL outputs being linked together. A quick look at the printset
shows that the multiplexers to select between the 2 M7706 boards in a dual
ported drive are on the dual port logic PCB,
-tony
More information about the cctalk
mailing list