HELP! scsi needed on DEC 5830
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Sat Mar 16 14:27:05 AEST 1991
In article <795 at llnl.LLNL.GOV> trj at phoenix.llnl.gov (Terry R. Jones x39834) writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> We're interested in connecting some scsi devices (optical disk jukebox
> and very high quality color printer) to a DEC 5830. This brings up
> several questions:
>
> (1) Does anyone know of a BI-card that talks scsi? (Note: the 5830
> doesn't have a Q-bus or Uni-bus.) Any experience with it?
There is one board sold as a direct BI->Exabyte SCSI interface, I think
it was originally designed by Megatape and is now being marketed by
Clearpoint or both.
While I suspect the basic board could handle any SCSI peripheral, it is
probably set up with controller "microcode" to provide TMSCP emulation,
so providing MSCP emulation might require additional software development.
I don't know if they are interested in pursuing this option, I'd certainly
snap up one of their boards if I knew I could use it for SCSI hard drives
and CD-ROM.
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