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Offline blubyTopic starter

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SupraDrive SCSI cable?
« on: September 25, 2007, 05:21:11 PM »
Hello. I've gotten a SupraDrive SCSI interface with a 37 pin connection on the back. Here's what it looks like:

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1244

Unfortunately, I only have the sidecar, not the drive and cable. Anyone know anything about the cable? Is it the "standard" 37 pinout you find shown on the web, like

http://www.gamesx.com/hwb/co_NovellProcompSCSI.html

or something more exotic?

Thanks

Larry
 

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Re: SupraDrive SCSI cable?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2007, 04:02:18 PM »
Thanks for the replies.

As to the controller chip it's a National Semiconductor
DP5380N, and as to Redmond Cable, I submitted a request
to see if they had anything or knew anything.

The beast is working, at least to the extent that
SupraTools detects its presence. I'll see what develops.

Thanks again
 

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Re: SupraDrive SCSI cable?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 02:12:18 PM »
Hi. I responded to Jope on the other board, but for
the record I'll post my findings here, in case anyone
is curious. I checked the IC specs and looked at the
traces on the board. The rightmost 25 pins on the
connector are a standard db25 SCSI, and the left
are: bottom 6 pins to ground, top 6 pins to something
else, I assume to power the external enclosure.

Thanks to both for the help.

Larry
 

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Re: SupraDrive SCSI cable?
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2007, 03:05:36 AM »
Progress report: I snipped one side of the shield off
of a 25pin straight-through cable and was able to use it
as an adapter to a 2Gig drive mounted in an
enclosure. I've been able to get only about 500k formatted on
the drive using the Supra tools to set up the partitions,
but it seems to work quite nicely.
I'll work next on getting more capacity and getting
the thing to auto-boot, but it definitely seem
to have worked out.

Larry