Looking for info/software/anything for 9-track adapter

[Tim Riker]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
>  On 9/17/2005,  Tim Riker  wrote:
>>I have an ATC16:
>>
>>http://www.idbcorp.com/atc16.html
> 
> Thanks, Tim--I'll have a peek.
> 
> Looks like a much better (but earlier) card than my Computer Logics PCTD.  Has a bigger FIFO, for one.  The CL has a 512x9  AMD  7201 FIFO and while it fits into a 16 bit ISA slot, uses only the IRQ lines from the "short side", so it's basically an 8 bit card.  Has a Xilinx FPGA and a bunch 74HCT00 series glue on it, mostly buffers and latches.  8 position unlabeled DIP switch--the tech guy at Chi said he thought it was to set base I/O port address, but I think it also sets DMA and IRQ.  11 address lines are connected, so there's no memory-mapped I/O either.
> 
> I wonder if mine will even handle the data rate from the Fujitsu M2444AC drive that it's hooked to.

IDB also makes a PCI card though I never used one of those. I could
stream over 600k/s from my M990 with the atc16. so this card held up
fine. That's as fast as the M990 would run. non-stop at 6250 bpi.

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