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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: SCSI Implementations (adaptec manual)
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Date: 16 Nov 88 17:38:43 GMT
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I can reccomend the Adaptec ACB-4000(A) reference manual that you can
request with the board (which converts SCSI to ST-412/506 that those
cheap PClone drives want.  It describes EVERYTHING, and even has a
source listing for an 8085 (I think) driver in back.

On the disk side, there are easily-interfacable custom chips, like the NCR
5380, which has CMOS and high-performance variants.  There are lots of
things to worry about when building a SCSI interface, although if you only
plan to attach a single drive to a single computer then you can probably not 
worry about arbitration and other stuff.  These days, I'd go and build
a PClone backplane interface and buy the cheap cards for it.  (For example,
I think I saw a $49 SCSI interface in some random magazine the other day.)

As always, be careful about TERMPWR, this is where some SCSI devices 'miss'
obeying the SPEC.

Good luck.
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