CMD Technology Unibus SCSI card

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Nov 21 19:33:00 2002

John Lawson wrote:
> I have managed to latch on to one of the above cards... the sticker
> on
> one chip says its a Model CDU-720/TM (sn 2127 BOYA8) and two ROMS have
> F720Y1A8 and 2A8 respectively. Board copyright is 1989 (in copper) and
> the silkscreening says 1991 - most of the chips are from '91. It is
> single-ended only; the differential section is not populated.

Nice find! Since it's a /TM, it can talk to both tapes and disks. It
needs to be configured for one CSR address for MSCP, and another for
TMSCP.

> I have yet to do any Googling, but if anyone has anything on this...

http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/cmd/cdu-722.txt

> I
> know a nice friendly 11/44 system (sitting to my immediate left) that
> would dearly love to be able to read CDROMS, SCSI disks, etc....

CD-ROM drives will probably have to be jumpered for 512-byte sectors
(vs. the standard 2048). Many Toshiba and Plextor SCSI drives have
such a setting.
Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 19:33:00 GMT

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