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#52574 Adaptec 1740 Message #52638
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware July 13, 1993 12:27 AM
It's probably the SCSI-2 cable or the plug. One time when I was trying to plug in the cable I pushed a little too hard and pushed one of the pins in the cable-plug back into the cable housing — needless to say, this caused problems. Look at the SCSI-2…
#49341 Need SCSI Y-Adapter Message #49838
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware June 4, 1993 12:44 AM
Believe it or not, I was thumbing through a MISCO catalog that I received at work and I found that there WAS such a thing as a Y-SCSI cable — actually I think it's just a double Centronics-50 connector with a tap out to a DB-25 connector (which some SCSI…
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware June 2, 1993 10:04 PM
What's the SCSI id of the CD-ROM — try 2 thru 6. If it's 1, your controller may be "recognizing" the CD-ROM as a variant of a hard drive.
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware June 2, 1993 10:04 PM
You can attach the HD and CD-ROM to the single host adapter (card). You'll need some kind of software driver for the CD-ROM.
#49499 Need SCSI Y-Adapter Message #49688
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware June 2, 1993 3:01 AM
Yep!!! I take it back as to the Y-stuff — your I-analogy is MUCH better. In any case if you COULD find an external cable with a CENTRONICs-50/DB-25 at either end and one in the middle it should work. A good project with a soldering iron!!!… -charlie-
#49401 #Need SCSI Y-Adapter Message #49446
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 29, 1993 2:43 AM
Why don't you think a Y-cable (if you could find one) would work ??? This is exactly what an internal SCSI cable IS — it's one 50-conductor cable with many female plugs on it — you just make sure the last drive in the chain is terminated.
#48828 SCSI Unit #/3401B ? Message #49227
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 26, 1993 2:31 AM
Usually devices 0 and 1 should ONLY be set to hard drives. The BIOS checks these device addresses — you don't need device drivers for them — it assumes they are hard drives. Another anecdotal item: At work, we have an ADAPTEC AHA-1640 with the only device on it being…
#48004 Multispin Drives Message #48017
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 9, 1993 2:10 AM
TEXEL also makes a multi-spin drive.
#44252 Sony CD 31A Specs? Message #44268
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 27, 1993 11:19 AM
Sorry about that — here's another number that I have for SONY — it's 1-408-955-5107 — I just called it and got a modem to send its tones to me (but I did this by manual dialing and didn't try to connect).
#44052 #Sony CD 31A Specs? Message #44131
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 26, 1993 12:00 AM
Try the Sony BBS at 1-408-732-7426.
#44028 ASPI protocol Message #44130
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 26, 1993 12:00 AM
Gee, I would have thought that Trantor would have told you how to get the docs for ASPI. I think you may be able to get them from Adaptec — their bulletin board number is 1-408-945-7727.
#43487 CD-ROM Installation Message #44043
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 25, 1993 5:03 AM
What SCSI address did you set the Toshiba to ??? Have you terminated the SCSI bus properly ??? Is there anything else on your host adapter ??? Is the Toshiba an internal or an external one ???
#42106 TOshiba 3401 DRiver Message #42472
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 9, 1993 9:21 PM
I don't know if I said I got CORELSCSI! with an Adaptec card. It comes with an 8-bit LS-2000 SCSI card. However, I DO use an Adaptec 1742 on my machine and CORELSCSI! seems to work with it — even though it is NOT certified as yet (by Corel). I…
#41945 #TOshiba 3401 DRiver Message #41990
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 5, 1993 2:28 AM
There is a packaging of CORELSCSI! that also comes with an 8-bit SCSI host adapter card. I have found the software by itself for $79 and the software with the host adapter card for $99. Although I already owned an ADAPTEC 1740, I figured the extra $20 was probably worth…
#41945 TOshiba 3401 DRiver Message #41989
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 5, 1993 2:28 AM
CORELSCSI! is sort of a universal-driver for SCSI devices; at least it's "universal" as far as the devices for which COREL gives a "certification" — at this point the 3401 is NOT certified but the COREL spokesperson (in the COREL forum) says that things are looking good for that device.…
#TOshiba 3401 DRiver Message #41465
From: Charlie Benet CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware February 28, 1993 2:17 PM
I'm using COREL SCSI! on my Toshiba 3401 — no problems at all.