[HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please

[Cory Smelosky]

Yeah, my mistake there.   I confused connectors and specs again.

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
| To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:31:20 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| 
| 
|     That's most certainly parallel SCSI; it has connectors for both 8-
|     and
| 16-bit wide buses internally.
| 
|                         -Dave
| 
| On 02/14/2013 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQUq-Knrc/s800/photo.JPG
| > 
| > I have a few of these.
| > 
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > | 
| > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| > | <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > | > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > | >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector
| > | >> is
| > | >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| > | >> inside.
| > | >
| > | >     If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| > | >
| > | >     The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is
| > | >     ISP1080-based)
| > | >     is a
| > | > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip.   Nearly all of the
| > | > required
| > | > circuitry is on that chip.
| > | >
| > | >     What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > | >     Adaptec
| > | > AHA2940 family.   Different chip, same basic idea, just as
| > | > common,
| > | > but
| > | > incompatible at the register level.
| > | >
| > | >                             -Dave
| 
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| Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| New Kensington, PA
| 

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