I seem to remember these as being bridge controllers from a SCSI host-port
to the FDD's. The company I associate with this phonetic spelling has no
'P' in the name, i.e. it's OMTI, at that time a subsidiary of SMS.
Because of the vintage, it would be wise to get some documentation to ensure
that the firmware on your host board will communicate over the channel this
board requires. I've got numerous SCSI<=>hard-disk boards from various
vendors of the time, all claiming to be SCSI-compatible, and not a one of
them will work on a SCSI adapter to a PC, be it from NCR, ADAPTEC, IOMEGA,
DTC, WD, or TRANTOR. All of my boards were made before the original SCSI
standard was adopted in 1986. The hardware appears to be compatible,
however, so if you have any flexibility at your host-adapter firmware end,
you may be able to use the OMTI boards. That time-frame seems to align more
or less with the INMOS doc's I've had around from time to time regarding
their Transputers, so I'd say there's cause for hope, if not optimism.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: SCSI-based floppy drives (3.5 or 5.25)
> Hi Hans,
>
> Basically I am in the process of creating a Transputer Standalone
> workstation and I might need a 3.5 *floppy* drive to round out the
> system. Currently, I only have a SCSI Tram which is going to hold the
> hard drive for the system. Adding a floppy drive to the chain will make
> it complete. Will these drives work? Tony, can you comment on this?
>
> Ram
>
> Hans Franke wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any SCSI-based *floppy* drives either in 3.5 or 5.25 (3.5
> > > preferred) format? I might need one for a project I am working on...
> >
> > I think I have one or two OMPTI 51?? controllers left. They should
> > do the trick with one or two drives - 40/80 Tracks, SD/DD, SS/DS,
> > whatever you need - just no HD.
> >
> > Gruss
> > H.
> >
> > --
> > VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen
> > http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
> > http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 18 2000 - 12:31:50 BST