[SunRescue] ACARD SCSI to IDE bridges

[Dan Lane]

Ok,

So I played around with putting IDE drives on my x86 PC and it was fun...
no real point though, the real reason I bought the cards home was to see
how well (if at all) they worked on my Sun hardware.

I decided to try it out on an IPC that wasn't being used, the first try I
found it had a knackered NVRAM so I tried another IPC, this booted fine so
I took the top off and removed the tray holding the SCSI drive and floppy.

Then I rested the drive in the plastic top half of the IPC, connected the
ACARD SCSIDE bridge to the IDE drive and the HD power cable directly to
the drive, then plugged the floppy power cable into the ACARD bridge, I
put the existing SCSI cable from the motherboard to the ACARD adapter and
plugged an external 411 case with a Sony caddy CD-Rom drive in it to the
external SCSI port and powered up.

at first the system only saw the hard drive, changed some jumpers on the
ACARD bridge to remove termination, then it only saw the CD-Rom drive,
then I saw that the ACARD bridge was set to device 6, same as the CD-Rom
drive, changed some more settings and changed the ACARD bridge to 4,
powered up and ran scsi-probe, which saw both devices.

at this time I was going to attempt to install an OS but the none of the
disks I had booted directly from CD properly (this happened before I put
the acard in) and I had to remove the floppy power for the acard bridge :(

I'll try and install it in my Sparcstation 5 sometime later in the week,
until then here are some pics:

	http://www.logicbomb.net/acard-sun/


Regards,
Dan

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