[Coco] Fwd: Disto 4-in-1 card manual

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

On the 4n1 no high current bus drivers and NO TERMINATION!!!!

On the SCSIsys side the getstat wasn't present, there were many others.

Haven't used it since the TC^3 was up and running and using Boisy's drivers.

SuperDriver is by far the best driver ever for the CoCo.

Mark

At 1/19/2007 12:47 PM, you wrote:

>On Friday 19 January 2007 10:58, Mark Marlette wrote:
> >Gene,
> >
> >I can tell that you didn't read the manual. There were MANY features
> >that were not implemented. It did work but not like documented. Many
> >features not completed.
> >
>Chuckle, Tony *never* made anything that worked exactly as the very
>limited docs claimed, and you couldn't buy even with an NDA, accurate
>schematics, I tried.  But in scsisys-2.2, the basic LSN addressed read &
>write worked for single devices only, so what more did the coco need?
>Even for scsisys-1.0, the freebie version, that all worked but at about
>2/3 speed, ISTR 18 secs for a megaread.
>
> >Mark
> >
> >Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:
> >> On Friday 19 January 2007 05:49, Mark Marlette wrote:
> >>> There are many issues with the 4n1's SCSI port. Electrically it
> >>> doesn't even follow the SCSI spec. SCSIsys was never finished and was
> >>> wounded in many aspects. I wouldn't waste my time on either.
>
>Name something important to the coco that was broken other than the
>cabling, you have my curiosity piqued.
>
> >> I used the registered scsisys for many years and it never made a
> >> mistake, not once. And, it was just as fast at a megaread as the
> >> ramdisks were. 11 seconds.
> >>
> >>> Get the TC^3 with SuperDriver, jump 15 years forward in technology.
> >>> Have it work right out of the box. But then again I'm partial to it.
> >>>
> >>> :)
> >> :
> >> :-)
>I do have to give it credit, it does feel faster than the old 4n1.  Boot
>times for that bootfile are about half of what the 4n1 was.
>
>--
>Cheers, Gene
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