Thanks for the replies guys. I'll be checking out the scsi adapter route when the 9100 get's here I think. that looks quite interesting. From what I can see of the keyboard interface project, it was all going quite well but was put on hold on 24th June 2003 because of deadlines on some other projects. David Shoemaker was running with it at that time. Then a baby appears to have come along early in 2004 :o) It looks like the adapters were essentially completed with a couple of limitations that I'm sure people could live with (no keyboard repeat, no lights) but never actually produced apart from a couple of test versions that went to Kev (mowerman I presume) and James? Anyway, from my reading up, as far as I can tell there's going to be absolutely nothing I can do with this unit in terms of programming and automating tasks apart from immediate mode operations without the keyboard and video card as even terminal emulation to send files to and from it requires initialising from within edit mode, then some file operations and conversions afterwards? Someone correct me if this is wrong? Very frustrating but I guess I'll just have to be patient and stick with it. I'm assuming I may have to even buy another entire base unit with a video card in it by the time I'm done but I've already been looking for one for about a year now so I don't hold out much hope for that happening too soon either! This thing looks like an entire new hobby all of it's own - looking forward to it :o) Martin. On 31 Dec 2007, at 18:12, Corey Stup wrote:
SCSI drive emulation would be a treat! Here is one link for a product to replace SCSI drives: http://www.adtron.com/products/Sdds.html I have worked with a couple SCSI->flash projects for the 9100. Some are successful, others not so much.
The SCSI interfaced flash HD's seem to work fine (under approx 700MB, above and you get the overflow issue in the editor). I have a couple running in 9100's now and they work perfectly, and no moving parts.
I've not been as successful with using the SCSI PCMCIA adaptors that allow for AT flash cards as a SCSI device. I believe its do to the sector sizes being different, but I've not had a chance to followup on it. I believe that another project that I have going (updating our kernel to OS-9 2.3) might help that, as its FS drivers allow for a larger range of sector sizes. I have a SCSI bus analyzer that has helped debug the SCSI driver but I lost interest in that project, it could be dug back out again if there were others interested.
Then we need someone to design a video card to replace the original so the machines can be useful...and what DID happen to the keyboard hack anyways? David? Corey? I never worked on the keyboard hack, but I'd be happy to pick it back up.
I have a ton of 9100 parts that eventually I need to do something with. Consoles, cards, parts, -003 modules, etc. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
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