Identify Magneto Optical Drive / Switch Settings?

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_postoffice.idirect.com>
Date: Sun Feb 17 09:16:45 2002

I suspect this is quite on topic.

I have acquired a 5 1/4" magneto optical disk drive that is
equivalent to a Sony SMO S501. The label says it was put
together by DYNATEK Automation Systems. I suspect that
the two internals are a C501/D501 from Sony in any case
with just the external box and power supply being from Dynatek.

SW1 is an unusual rotary switch which is used to select the
SCSI ID - I have tested that and confirmed that it works.

The drive works quite well as the last drive in the daisy
chain, so I presume that a terminator and terminator power
are part of the selectable equipment. Of course, the drive
works very well as the only drive on the host adapter.

My question concerns SW2 which is an 8 position dip switch.
On the Sony drive, there is ONLY an 8 position dip switch
with 3 positions being used for SCSI ID. Might anyone
have some documentation on which parts of the dip switch
on the Dynatek drive are used and for what?
Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 09:16:45 GMT