[Coco] [Color Computer] Iomega SCSI internal zip drive on ebay

[Mark Marlette]

At 11/23/2004 08:40 PM +0000, you wrote:

Ray,

Ah yes, that was the difference. Yes you can boot from the device, RSDOS 
via HDB-DOS 1.1B and NitrOS-9, all good, a nice addition to the CoCo.

Mark

>Mark,  I have not seen a way, or read in the manual, how to disable 
>parity.  However, the internal ZIP has an advantage over the external in 
>that you can strap it for any drive # from 0 to 7 with jumpers.  I've 
>never tried booting up with a ZIP as /h0, but I see no reason why you can't.
>
>Cheers,   Griz
>
>
>mmarlett at isd.net wrote:
>
>>Some of us use SCSI in RSDOS. :) Have to love HDB-DOS. Now that was a
>>commercial!
>>
>>ZIP drives generally require the interface to generate parity. Not sure if
>>the internal ZIP has the ability to disable parity. Externals don't.
>>Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface is the only parity generating interface. Very
>>simple, just never done. You can add a 74LS280 IIRC and generate, if your
>>interface doesn't do parity.
>>
>>Mark
>>Cloud-9
>>http://www.cloud9tech.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hey guys,
>>>
>>>since some of you use SCSI stuff on NitrOS9, I thought I'd just mention 
>>>that I have an internal SCSI zip for sale on ebay now that would go 
>>>nicely into an external SCSI box.
>>>
>>>Item number is 5142217960
>>>
>>>sorry for the commercial!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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