#A2386SX-20 Bridgeboard
re: The CD-ROM connection
AMIGA CROSSINGS Vo. 6 No 1 January 1994
Dear All,
The advice of the so called Bridgeboard hardware techie Steven Kapplin how
to share a CD-ROM between the PC and Amiga sides sounded like the answer
to my prayers. Throwing away my old Soundblaster Pro 2.0 board as well as
my Creative Labs non standard CD-ROM and spending a lot of money (> 1.000
US$) for a Soundblaster 16 SCSI II (Adaptec [market leader]
AHA-1510/1520/1522-Host Adapter series compatible) and a Toshiba 3401 SCSI
II CD-ROM was a matter of hours.
Now both hostadapters provide termination at each end of the bus and every
SCSI device is set to a different SCSI ID, only to see a nonstop
recoverable 'yellow' alert on the (tuned) Amiga 2000 side when aspi2dos is
scanning the other hostadapter. I tested two Amiga hostadapters (Fireball
& MASOBOSHI, wellknown in Europe) with the same effort.
Oh Steven, what the hell do YOU mean with a 'fairly full-featured
controller'?
S.O.S. at least mine
TIA :-< Bruno