Date   : Thu, 26 May 2005 22:49:54 +0100
From   : "BeebMaster" <beebmaster@...>
Subject: Re: 8-bit IDE i/f debugging

I wonder if that's where I'm going wrong because I've tried just about everything
(with the BBC
host adapter as well) from parity enabled, parity disabled, terminators on,
off, powered from the
drive, SCSI bus etc etc etc and nothing ever happens apart from the odd melting
SCSI cable which
thankfully hasn't happened for a while now.

How would I know if a drive supports 256 bytes per sector; I'd have to download
the manual I
suppose.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Tomlinson
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:41:52 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 8-bit IDE i/f debugging

In article <771D78FB5D28423382F1197700B5E532.MAI@...>,
BeebMaster <beebmaster@...> writes

>I've tried to connect various SCSI discs to the back of a FileStore E01S but I 
>haven't got anything
>to work yet.

It should "just work", provided the drive supports 256-byte sectors.
You'll need the formatter utility that formats the disk over the Econet.