Good haul of old pc stuph

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Don't overlook things like PC sound cards--some had SCSI adapters built on

The problem with this is that the 5150 has 8-bit slots and most of the sound 
cards with SCSI chips on them (Pro Audio Spectrum, etc.) are 16-bit ISA cards. 
  The most advanced sound cards I've been able to put into my 5150 have been 
the Sound Blaster Pro 2 (has unknown IDE port on it, works with the CDROM it 
came with but nothing else) and the Roland SCC-1 (which is an SC-55 on-a-card 
and has no additional functionality).

> for CD drives.  Old Bernoilli and scanner adapters are anohter sounce,
> assuming that you can find drivers for all of these--you need only get as
> far as ASPI support if you don't want to boot the drives.  There are
> ASPI-interfaced general purpose drivers and utilities to go the rest of the
> way.

I own a CorelSCSI 8-bit board but without software I can't use it (based on the 
videotape that came with it, it appears to have been designed for hooking up 
CDROMs and tape drives anyway)

> A clue to finding drivers is to locate the SCSI LSI chip.  The Trantor
> T130, for example, has an NCR 53C400.

And where would I find these fabled drivers?  :-)
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