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- From: jkubicky@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph J. Kubicky)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: How do I get an SCSI CD-ROM drive working on my PC?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:16:45 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- I have a Toshiba TXM3301E1 CD-ROM drive that I borrowed off one of
- our other machines around here (an SGI Indigo). I want to use it
- on my PC to look at some Microsoft Developer's Network Cd-ROMs I
- have. My SCSI controller was built by a company called Ballard
- Synergy - I bought it about 4 years ago - don't know if they're
- still around. The board came with three drivers, but I've lost the
- docs so I don't know exactly what they do. I think they implement
- something called a CAM interface. The board is based on an NCR
- chip - the 53C400, I think. My machine sees the BIOS just fine on
- warm-boot. There is a simple program called BIOSTEST that sends
- simple SCSI messages to a specified target. Using this program, the
- board appears to see the SCSI drive (via Mode Sense) at the correct
- address (which can be set via a switch on the back of the drive).
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- Can anyone help me out here? I would like to get this working,
- and I would also like to know if Ballard Synargy is still around
- and, if so, how to contact them.
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- Many thanks,
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- Jay Kubicky
- jkubicky@cco.caltech.edu
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