EXABYYE 8500 + Peripheral Vision card

From: Dave Woodman <dave_at_naffnet.org.uk>
Date: Sun May 19 15:17:00 2002

Hi,

   I have an EXABYTE 8500 drive with a Peripheral Vision daughter card
plugged into the back (along with the LCD display on the tape door) - I
am taking a guess that this card provides hardware compression to the
8500, but, without documentation, I am not sure how to configure it.

   The board has six DIP switches, numbered 1-6 from right to left as
you look at the rear of the drive. 1-3 are the SCSI address, and
seemingly must match the SCSI address that was configured on the drive
itself - fair enough!

   Switch 4 enables a menu allowing the selection of 2 and 5GB modes,
and I understand from googling that, if I was to have a 8500c then I
would also be able to bypass the drives internal compression from here.
Once more, this is so far perfectly reasonable.

   All of which leaves switches 5 & 6, the reason for this message - can
anyone tell me what (if anything) they do?

    Many thanks,

            Dave.
Received on Sun May 19 2002 - 15:17:00 BST