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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Conner Drives
Summary: The tech is right!
Keywords: The Plot Thickens - More
Message-ID: <1988@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 13:30:35 GMT
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In article <0544.AA0544@dcpc> dc@dcpc.UUCP (Don Curtis) writes:
*
*In Message-ID: <9002110930.AA04776@sorinc.UUCP> magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup) posts:
*
*
**In article <9064@portia.Stanford.EDU> mmaston@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Maston) writes:
***OK guys, now that you have provided me with the specs on the CP-340, maybe
***one of you could provide me with the uses of the 7 jumpers on the front
*                                                   ^
***(the end without the power and SCSI connector) of the drive.  I figured out
***from trial and mostly error that there are four jumpers on the controller
***board that set the SCSI address, but I have no idead what these others are.
*
*This is where it starts to get interesting...my 2 Conner CP-304's have
*have 10 pins on the front in a double row
*
**           7          Out   Out   Out
*
*	[ other stuff deleted ]
	[ lots of stuff deleted ]
*
*	I called Conner the other day, they told me that the pins on the front
*	were for test purposes (much like a serial port), but that there
*	should have been 2 pins by themselves, two pins cut off and then
*	rest of the pins.  The 2 by themselves are the LED pinouts.  When I
*	saw my drives weren't set up like this...I just presumed that the
*	tech was looking in wrong manual (it happens...no big deal).
The tech is correct.  The jumpers on the front of the drive are NOT for
drive id.  Jumpers E1-E4 on the rear of the controller are parity and
drive id.
*
*	This also goes back to the 788 vs 752 cylinders question.  The
*	drives on the 3B4000 definately have 788 cylinders, the sales
*	literature I got from Conner definately shows 788 cylinders
*	(the technical manual is on it's way...should be here tommorow)
*	but I only get 752 and Darrin had posted an earlier message about
*	his tech manual only showing 752 cylinders.

I have two, one is so old it doesn't have places for termination packs, and
they both report 788C, 4H, and 26S/T to my 2091.

Steve
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