Ampro Little Board questions...

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Dec 15 21:30:06 2001

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Gene Buckle wrote:

> > From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
> > >belongs with it. Does anyone have a Series 100 box that
> > could give me
> > >the measurements and connector orientation & location of the floppy
> > >cable?
> >
> >
> > Nothing magic. the last one I had used was from a PC.
> >
> I was after the length of the cable and their locations on it.

It should not have a twist like a PC cable, and can be a length of
34-conductor ribbon cable, Gene, with a 50-pin female header on each
end. What ever length is needed.

> > >Secondly, I don't know what "brand" SCSI controller is built
> > into the
> > >board. The SCSI chip seems to be an NCR 5830, but that leads me
> > >nowhere in relation to whether or not it's an Adaptec or other model
> > >controller. I need to know the brand because the hd
> > formatting software
> > >needs to know it.
> >
> >
> > Your applying PC logic to it. It's is not Adaptec, i'ts just
> > SCSI (SCS1 or II) host and the NCR5380 is one of the early
> > and common chips used for that.
> >
> Funny, the Ampro docs list all these various controllers and whatnot.
> The software also _asks_ what controller it is going to talk to. The
> SCSI controller is part of the LB. What would the software consider the
> onboard controller to be?

What hard-drive are you using? If it is a SCSI drive? Is it set to
ID=0? If so, choose either Seagate or Maxtor and give that a try.

> > formatting. If you dont mind hacking Z80 code you can go frm
> > an AMPRO LB with SCSI to a smaller SCSI drive (64mb or less,
> > or the rest will be unused).
>
> I've got a 20MB SCSI drive I'm trying to use. The bootrom rev tells me
> that it's got support for the SCSI controller. What coding has to be
> done?

If you have the proper version of the HD Utilities, you should not need
to do any.
                                                 - don

> G.
>
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Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 21:30:06 GMT