[HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please

[Dave McGuire]

  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:
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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