[Color Computer][Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 08:26, Mark Marlette wrote:
>Gene,
>
>Well I can tell you for a fact that the TC^3 will work with a CD-ROM
>or whatever at any of the SCSI addresses with a fully loaded bus.
>Never had a termination problem. Though on the SuperBoard TERM power
>will be selectable.

termination problems bite you other ways that are not always 
translatable into what they really are.  The amigas total system 
crashes while reading a disk file come to mind, absolutely 
non-repeatable..  Let your mind wander over all possible scenarios and 
I'm sure you'll hit one that has a certain familarity to it...

>The rest of your post.... No wonder you don't have time to round tuit
>and get it done. Seems like I was back in Communications design class
>20+ years ago. Been there, done it. You need to get your SCSI going,
>so.... GET R DONE. Convert type time to tuit time.

Chuckle,  You and that 'cable guy' on tv I've never been able to dumb 
down to long enough to watch for more than 30 seconds of.  Canned 
audience laughter drive me up a wall.
 
>As far as your SCSI to IDE comparison. Yes SCSI is very elegant
>compared to IDE. We had a heck of a time one whole summer
>testing/debugging the SuperIDE. Most don't even follow the spec. Even
>the same manufacture's drives of different IDE eras won't work in a
>master slave configuration.

Amen, although I think thats gradually getting better in the last 3-4 
years.

>Well I'm going to end my part of the thread here. Normally I'm pretty
>quiet here because I have very little free time. I'll do scan most of
>the posts. I spend my time working on my CoCo projects, hands on,
>rather than just typing about them. Much more gratifying to me.

:-)  And thats why we buy solutions from you Mark.

[huge snip]

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