Connecting other things to the Blizzard SCSI connector?

[motorollin]

I fitted a SCSI kit to my Blizzard 1260 today, and it got me wondering whether the SCSI connector could be used for anything else, like a graphics card? Or is the connector only usable as a SCSI bus? Anyone know any technical details of the SCSI connector on the Blizzard?

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moto

[motorollin]

Well I didn't know whether the bus that the SCSI interface connects to is just a SCSI bus, or some kind of ISA or PCI interface which could be expanded. Looks like no. Oh well at least we have PCI slots now :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Chunder wrote:
Actually, the connector on the Blizzard is a DMA-enabled interface that doesn't have anything to do with SCSI in its own right. It's the add-on card that gives the SCSI ability - so theoretically it should be possible to design a card that fits the connector and bungs data to the Amiga via DMA.

That's what I thought :eureka:

I guess nobody's gonna invest in this though now we have PCI solutions. Though Mediator and Prometheus don't support DMA do they? I wonder whether the Blizzard expansion connector is a wide enough bus for PCI with DMA?

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moto

[motorollin]

Well I thought I would give it a try, so I soldered a ribbon cable from my Voodoo to the SCSI connector on my 1260. It didn't work.







Just kidding.

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moto

[motorollin]

Heh, well up until my previous post about soldering my Voodoo to my Blizzard, I was dead serious. Nothing wrong with a bit of humour about it though.

But yes, quite  :horse:

 :lol:

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moto