[Coco] [Color Computer] Iomega SCSI internal zip drive on ebay

[Mark Marlette]

At 11/23/2004 08:40 PM +0000, you wrote:

Ray,

Ah yes, that was the difference. Yes you can boot from the device, RSDOS 
via HDB-DOS 1.1B and NitrOS-9, all good, a nice addition to the CoCo.

Mark


>Mark,  I have not seen a way, or read in the manual, how to disable 

>parity.  However, the internal ZIP has an advantage over the external in 

>that you can strap it for any drive # from 0 to 7 with jumpers.  I've 

>never tried booting up with a ZIP as /h0, but I see no reason why you can't.

>

>Cheers,   Griz

>

>

>mmarlett at isd.net wrote:

>

>>Some of us use SCSI in RSDOS. :) Have to love HDB-DOS. Now that was a

>>commercial!

>>

>>ZIP drives generally require the interface to generate parity. Not sure if

>>the internal ZIP has the ability to disable parity. Externals don't.

>>Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface is the only parity generating interface. Very

>>simple, just never done. You can add a 74LS280 IIRC and generate, if your

>>interface doesn't do parity.

>>

>>Mark

>>Cloud-9

>>http://www.cloud9tech.com

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>>Hey guys,

>>>

>>>since some of you use SCSI stuff on NitrOS9, I thought I'd just mention 

>>>that I have an internal SCSI zip for sale on ebay now that would go 

>>>nicely into an external SCSI box.

>>>

>>>Item number is 5142217960

>>>

>>>sorry for the commercial!

>>>

>>>

>>>

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