2.88 MB floppy drive, scsi?

From: Jan Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu Oct 11 00:14:45 2001

> SCSI-enabled PeeCee, I snagged my spare VAX bridgeboard w/1.44
> floppy, set the SCSI ID & slid it onto the chain... worked flawlessly.

Hmmmm. I've got one of those I tried to test off an Adapted 1542CF

I got the board to respond to the controller's device polling, but I
didn't ever actually access the drive. I even tried loading the ASPI
Manager device driver, still to no avail. Perhaps I should mount a
different floppy drive to it and see if it was just a bad floppy? Had
a dip switch on it but with only three switches, I figured that was
probably just the ID select, and my ID was already set to be different
from the controller, so I didn't bother messing with it.

How did your's act. Like a floppy or a removable media hard drive?
Were you able to boot from it?




Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Pete Turnbull may have mentioned these words:
>
> >Teac made SCSI floppies which were used by SGI and others; one of my
> >Indigos has one, and a couple of friends have them too. The floppy is a
> >more-or-less standard FD-235, except that most have a motorised eject. The
> >SCSI card is an add-on, albeit a very compact one.
> >
> >If you don't want the SCSI cards, I can use them :-)
>
> VAXStations use them, too -- it's basically a SCSI to MFM bridgeboard that
> is really quite compatible -- when my floppy drive died on my SCSI-enabled
> PeeCee, I snagged my spare VAX bridgeboard w/1.44 floppy, set the SCSI ID &
> slid it onto the chain... worked flawlessly.
>
> I doubt the bridgeboard would work for a 2.88Meg floppy, tho -- dunno if
> the "BIOS" (for lack of a better term) supports that density as it didn't
> exist until well after the board was built.
>
> I wouldn't mind having a spare, either -- they're tough to find...
>
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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