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From: garyb@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Gary Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI monitors
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Date: 11 Jul 90 14:43:59 GMT
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In article <11038@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
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>this group may have covered this before but can anyone point me towards
>a sophisticated SCSI monitor? i had in mind something i can plug into
>a scsi bus and display for me the last many (10-100s) commands and responses.
>price, for now, is no object.

We have a couple of Pacific Electro Data PED4000 series of PC
expansion cards and software.  I sometimes wonder how we got by before
we had these things.  If all you want is a passive analyzer, ask about
the PED 4003 state and phase analysis package.  If you require target
emulation as well, then ask about the 4033 model.  To date, the only
problem we have had with these boards is that for high BW transdfers,
the data acquistion board is a little too slow.  This results in
garbled data showing up for faster peripherals (eg. sync xfers).  This
hasn't been a problem since all other bus phases are handled
correctly, and you usually don't care to see all the data anyway.
This board requires one full length 8 bit slot of an IBM PC compatible.

PED has new product they are developing, the PED 4500 series.  Because
of the data BW problem, I really wanted the new faster product, but
the target emulation package was not yet ready.  So they allowed me to
buy the 4033, and upgrade to the 4533 when it's ready, with a 100%
trade in credit.  This should be out in the near term (last schedule I
heard was sometime in July).

Anyway, here's their address and phone for those interested:

	Pacific Electro Data, Inc.
	14 Hughes, Suite B205
	Irvine, CA  92718
	(714) 770-3244

Here are some of the prices I was quoted back in January.

	PED4003	 ~$2000  Old product, analyzer only
	PED4033	  $3495  Old product, analyzer and target emulation
	PED4503	 ~$5000  New product, analyzer only
	PED4533	  $6995  New product, analyzer and target emulation