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George Harvey wrote:

> In article <88282.e-tomcat@sc.bme.hu> <e-tomcat@sc.bme.hu> writes:
> >
> [ snip ]
> >
> >    Ps: I like this thread about MFM drives a lot... For the real
> >        brave, ther were custom boards made by Adaptec that allowed
> >        two MFM or RLL drives to function as two LUNs of a SCSI
> >        device via that converter card. If you find one such beast,
> >        it might be easier for you to run MFM drives on 4 CPU Xeons.
>
> I know this is off-topic but I couldn't resist...
> I have one of those old Adaptec boards attached to a full-height
> 5.25" RLL drive. It came out of a 3Com file server from way back
> when 3Com used to sell network operating systems (anyone remember
> 3+Share and 3+Open?). I used to have it connected to the SCSI port
> on my Amiga, worked fine once you figured out how many cyls, heads
> and sectors it was pretending to have.
>
> --
>
>     George Harvey                  | Porting Minix to the IsiCAD
>     email: fr30@dial.pipex.com     | Prisma diskless workstation

Is that an 8-bit ISA board?  I think have seen something like that a
2nd-hand store, and wondered what a SCSI connector and non-SCSI
connector(s?) were doing on an 8-bit ISA board.  Does it have a BIOS,
and/or need special drivers for DOS and/or Minix?

Rory O'Connor    r o o c o n n   a t   i b m   d o t   n e t   ( put 'em
together for my email address)


