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From: root@mmug.edgar.mn.org (Tony Austinson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: MFM to SCSI?
Message-ID: <3.27AAED61@mmug.edgar.mn.org>
Date: 2 Feb 91 16:34:17 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Macintosh Users Group PUB*NIX Gate
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In article <``#&X~$@rpi.edu> Christopher Widmann 
(woody@iear.arts.rpi.edu) writes:

 > I have just aquired a dead Dataframe 20 meg SCSI box
 > for a Macintosh.
 > The drive is dead, but it is a MFM drive and has an
 > SMS OMTI 3100 SCSI
 > to MFM converter card mounted in the box. I was
 > wondering if anyone
 > happens to have any of the jumper settings for drive
 > sizes and scsi id
 > required by this card. I would like to use it with a
 > 40 meg or 2 20 meg
 > drives, and need the jumper settings so that I can set
 > it up. Thanks.

      First, are you sure it's the drive and not the power
supply? I've come across a lot of "dead" DataFrame drives
and they all had burned out power supplies, while the
controller and drive were OK.

      The next thing, the older DataFrame drives used
software to change the SCSI ID's, not jumper settings (I
don't have and DataFrames in front of me, so I can't
confirm what you have matches your description).

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