Good haul of old pc stuph

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:17:01 -0800
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 12/16/2005 at 1:01 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
> 
> >This reminds me -- what's a good 8-bit SCSI adapter for IBM PC
> >5150-class  machines?  I've got SCSI drives here that I'd like
> >to put to use, but all I  have for this machine is a Western
> >Digital MFM controller.
> 
> Don't overlook things like PC sound cards--some had SCSI
> adapters built on 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.
> 

Were many of the PC Sound cards that had SCSI adapters 8 bit
though?  Most of the earlier 8-bit sound cards had proprietary CD
interfaces and the later ones with IDE are mostly 16-bit.  I have
a large collection of sound cards on hand, many with CD
interfaces, and I don't know if any of them are 8 bit cards.


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