Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:30:13 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Cc: frankd@yoda.fdt.net, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP C1752-66500 cheapo SCSI card Message-ID: <199701202300.JAA02621@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701201950.OAA04368@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Jan 20, 97 02:50:00 pm"
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Bill Paul stands accused of saying: > > > > > >Anybody know if this cheapo card will work with the nca driver? > > >The card I have originally came with an HP Scanjet IIc scanner: > > >it's an 8-bit ISA card with an NCR 53C400 chip. The board is very "It should". > > >simple: there's a grand total of two ICs, plus one 4 bit switchblock. What's the other IC? One is obviously the 53c400 snotbox, the other is presumably the bus interface... > Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be it. I managed to find a copy of > the Windoze deskscan software, and included were a couple of utilities. > One of them, called swtchset.exe, tells me that the switch settings are > for what it calls a 'ROM address.' The possible settings, according to > the program, are DC000, CC000, D0000, D4000 and D8000. I set the board > for DC000 and verified that the deskscan sjii.sys driver can find it. > (This is with Lose95.) "ROM address"? Is there space on the card for a 28 or 32-pin DIP? If the switchblock has 4 bits, you've only listed 5 memory addresses; is that one for 'all off', and one for each bit on, or are there other combinations? > There's also a program called findport.exe which just prints: > > Port 280 is available. ... > I'm not really sure what this means. I suspect that it means that the card's base address can be soft-set. > -Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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