8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Dec 13 19:07:19 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 <bobstek_at_ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
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_at_ix.netcom.com
>Saver of Lost SOLs
>
>
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