MCS-600/700 or IBM SCSI-2 
   Install MCS-600/77/SCSI-2 Under W95
   SCSI-2 on IML System
   Lacuna Convenience Partition
   FD and IBM Card Differences
   FD/SCSI-2 and P70 ESDI
   Running with the Devil (FD without ROM)
   MCS-600 and the DB25 
      Drive Shows up as "Direct Access" (Use FDDSU.EXE)
   MCS-600/700 TMC-1800 ADF Sections
   MCS-600/700 or IBM SCSI-2 (18C50 chipset) ADF Section
MCS-350
   MCS-350 ADF Sections
MCS-200

   The SCSI-2 Adapter /A was OEM'd by Future Domain, based on the MCS-700 (18C50 VLSI chip). MCS-700 and MCS-600 use the same chipset, but the MCS-600 has the Apple DB25 external port.  Up to 10MB/second-to and from the SCSI bus

18C50 vs 1800 Based Adapters
David Beem (HAL) pipes up with:
> What can the 18C50 do, that 1800 can not?
    It may have been more on the chipset the controller board had. Of the MCA boards, MCS-600 = TMC-1800 vs. MCS-700 = TMC-18C50. The MCS-700 had the improvement of a jumper-selectable termination instead of removable resistor packs. The external SCSI connection was a high-density DB-50 instead of the 'Apple' DB-25 connection of the MCS-600. Shrouded internal SCSI connector (helpful for the right orientation every time) & un-implemented solder pads for jumper settings than could adjust some SCSI bus options on the MCS-700 as well. The MCS-700 power connector was more conservatively rated at 1.5 amps for the 12VDC and 5VDC pins, versus the 2 amp rating on the MCS-600. Of course "C" in the chipset number means the power-saving CMOS fabrication.
    I have to see if these different chipsets return different values for  the Future Domain BIOS call "Get SCSI Controller Information" INT 13h, Function 18h. The book I have shows only values for the older FD chipsets. There is another BIOS call that determines ANSI SCSI-1 or SCSI-2 compatibility. Of course the TMS-700 will have a much newer BIOS as well. On the versions I have the boards are remarkably similiar despite the 3 year difference in production. Tiny differences that add up on the finer points of manufacture.

Jim Shorney pulls a few out of the weeds and says:
Alternate part for U7 - REG5601U (on an IBM MCS700 71G3575).  18-line active terminator.  PDF data sheet is here:

Alternate for U4 - CY7C185-20 - 8Kx8 static RAM.  See here:
TERMENA Enables integrated terminating-resistor. Remove if both INTERNAL and  EXTERNAL SCSI - devices are connected. 
TERMPWR Enables terminating-resistor voltage and should normally left in place. 

Passive/Active SCSI Terminating
 Passive terminating-resistors are normally fully functioning if only  internal or external devices are connected. If there are internal and external devices connected you MUST use ACTIVE -Terminating on both ends of the SCSI - cables (internal/external), especially if there are fast Hard-Disks or any other FAST SCSI-2 devices ( => 10MB/s ) connected. 

SCSI-2 on IML System
   The 71G3575 will NOT support IML. Tthey will lay an IML track, but can't access the IML partition. No end of frustration... Do not try to use these in a 90 or 95 as an IML controller. 
   You can use the IBM SCSI-2 as a secondary controller where they work fine. Hang a CD or a scanner off them. Nice to have a standard SCSI port to use (no RS6K stuff). . 

Lacuna Convenience Partition
>Err ... Peter.  All three of my 77s (9577-BTG) has a convenience partition that was layed with the OEM'ed FD-MCS-700 that came standard.  Samething goes for my 76s (9576-BNB). 

   That's what I said. The system partition will not work with the *original* Future Domain MCS-700 without the "IBM Support BIOS" .... It works on the IDE-machines (with utilizing the IBM Int4B Abios extension hooked to generic Bios Int13h -which is the boot / harddisk interrupt- ... attached to hardware IRQ 0Eh) and on the SCSI Models only with the reworked IBM 
controller BIOS.  Reason why (to my opinion): the FD-controller can utilize other hardware IRQs than only 0Eh (14). 

My 9577-BTG has the IBM-version MCS-700 with the Rom BIOS 1.01 (I think) and it has the "convenience partition" as well. I had the cached SCSI in that machine as well - it also supports the partition, but is officially not supported in the Lacunas. 

Manual install-
   Control Panel>Add New Hardware>Future Domain (left hand scroll box) > Future Domain MCS-600/700 (right hand scroll box).
   Make sure the FD/SCSI-2 settings from under IBM's system programs (refdisk or setup as you want to call it) are used. W95 knows the choices available. Make sure the IO and IRQ are correct! If not, you won't see a CD-Rom.

a)  Future Domain V3.nn = Future Domain and supports Int 13h via Int 4Ch (SCSI-CAM). Does boot-drive scan from Id. 0-6. (Peter)... but does not support IBM's ABIOS functions which use Int 4Bh, which is the one that establishes / handles a "convenience / reference partition". And which is the function that reports back the attached SCSI devices. Max drive size directly controllable with the latest Future Domain BIOS (v3.61, IIRC) it's around the 8GB mark (actually 8064MB), as limited by the Int 13h BIOS call parameters' max. values (1024-cylinders x 256-heads x 63-sectors x 512-byte sectors). I have a BIOS image from Peter W.

b) IBM V1.0n = Supports Int 13h via Int 4Bh (IBM SCSI). Does boot-drive scan from Id. 6-0 and supports RefDisk Config and Diags. If using the IBM v1.1 BIOS, it has a max drive size of 3.94GB (1024-cylinders x 255-heads x 63-sectors x 512-byte sectors), again IIRC.

>     For using the 700 as a secondary controller, allowing drivers to be loaded, how big can the secondary drive be?

    This is only limited by the driver's and OS's design, but has limits set by a 32-bit "Logical Block Address" (LBA) of 4 Gigablocks and the assumed 512-byte logical block size = 2 terabytes. Check your OS doc.s and any READMEs for the driver for that OS.

(Peter) 
   1.00 seems to have limit at 4GB and -probably- with ATAPI CD-ROMs. This is a "Lacuna"-specific problem when you have the harddisks attached to the SCSI controller and an additional IDE CD-ROM on the systemboard port.
   I'd tried that on a machine with IBM Controller BIOS Rev. 1.0 and the system refused to even recognize the CD-ROM. I switched to a 1.01 controller and -voilá- there it was. However: when I set the CD-ROM to "Slave" it failed to work properly even with 1.01 on the SCSI controller.
   There seem to be dependencies within the Boot-BIOS part of the IBM SCSI Bios on the FD-controller.

   1.01 works fine with bigger HDs and CDs ... but dislikes CD-ROMs solely attached to the IDE with a jumpering to "Slave". (Ed. BUT  even though it shows up under Set and View SCSI Devices, it does NOT support IML! You cannot use it as the IML drive controller on a T1-T3 90 or 95.)

Finally, Peter sez:
   The FD MCS-600/700 can be upgraded to an IBM SCSI-2 with the IBM ROM. The two only differ by the DC-plug that the FD has and the IBM lacks. The FD was originally designed as an "upgrade controller" to add to an existing system which might not have a free DC-plug. The IBM version was intended as "additional controller" (e.g. for tapes in a MCA Server) or sole SCSI controller as in the Lacunas, which have enough DC-plugs coming from the power supply. Just in case anyone wonders why IBM saved the few pennies for the DC-plug

SCSI-2 and P70 ESDI Adventures
Jeff Hellige vents and sez:
  I've got my P70 running again under OS/2 Warp Ver. 3 and regardless of the slot it's placed in or the configuration, the MCS-700 seems to be conflicting with the onboard ESDI controller in protected mode.  POST is reports the following error on bootup:  1047000 221 (ESDI Controller Wrap Failure)
        If the SCSI board is left in, OS/2 will run for a while and then start locking up, which makes sense if the conflict is in Protected mode.  DOS will run without errors.  The Reference diskette diagnostics configuration report shows the wrong configuration with the board install and I've not attempted to go any further with the SCSI board installed.  With it removed the diagnostics goes all the way through without errors, showing the 
correct configuration. 
        The ROM version on the MCS-700 is 1.01.  I've tried it in both slots as well as tried changing the IRQ and such in the Reference disk setup.  All of this had no effect on the error.

   1) reinstalled the MCS-700 with the IBM BIOS 1.01 still installed. It continued to give the error and I ran diagnostics from the Refdisk.  The SCSI test gave an error of 0210000U.
   2) I removed the BIOS and reinstalled.  PowerSCSI4 would not install without a device hooked to the card so I connected an external 1gig SCSI hard disk to it.  Drivers installed fine under both DOS and OS/2.  No errors on boot and I'm able to access the drive fine under both operating systems as well.  It took 4-1/2 minutes to copy 64meg of data from the internal DBA disk to the external SCSI disk.

   I had tried to disable the BIOS in the system setup on the Refdisk, but it didn't help.  Removing the BIOS chip altogether seems to have fixed it though.  My only complaint is that it insists on formatting the external hard disk with 32k sectors!  I'll have to play with that some more.  Now the question is, what functionality have I lost by removing the BIOS chip?  Am I corrct to assume that it won't be possible to boot off a SCSI disk in this configuration?

FD w/o ROM
Tony roars with:
   Setup a MCA flavor S/320 with one of the FD's (minus ROM) running an Archive Viper tape drive.  Nothing dramatic happened - it just worked. Nice to free up one of my scarcer v1.01 IBM ROMs so I can replace the brain dead v1.0 in something else. BTW, autoconfig seems to want to allocate a ROM address for the adapter by default.  I just went in after autoconfig ran and disabled the (nonexistant) ROM.

Tim Clarke
   That's because the ROM actually has only 6KB mapped-in and the controller chip has a 2KB "buffer" that is configured to be contiguous with it, to make up the 8KB total "ROM" allocation. I'm not sure if the "ROM Disabled" configuration means that the buffer is too, causing some extra I/O overhead, or not.

Adapter Memory Location
   Memory location used for the BIOS ROM 
    <Segment CA00>, Segment CE00, Segment DE00, Segment C800

Adapter I/O Location
   I/O location the adapter will use 
     0140, <0150>, 0160, 0170 

Select Interrupt Line
   Interrupt used by the SCSI controller 
     <Int 5>, Int 10, Int 11, Int 12 (Mouse), Int 14 (Fixed Disk), Int 15 (Rsrvd), Int 3 (Serial Alternate), Int Disabled 

ADF File for MCS-700 /IBM MC SCSI-2 adapter (18C50 VLSI)
60E9 IBM PS/2 SCSI-2 Adapter/A or MCS-600/700 

Adapter ROM BIOS Address
    Memory address used for the ROM BIOS.  In general, the BIOS must be enabled to support fixed or removable SCSI disk drives.  If you are using the PowerSCSI software, and if the only SCSI devicesattached to this controller are tapes, CD-ROM drives or non-direct access devices, the BIOS may be disabled to speed system startup 
     <Segment CA00>, CE00, DE00, C800, Disabled 

Adapter I/O Port Address
      I/O port addresses the adapter will use 
     <0140h>, 0150h, 0160h, 0170h 

SCSI Adapter Address (ID)
      SCSI ID of the adapter is fixed and cannot be changed 
     <7>

Select Interrupt Line
    Interrupt used by the SCSI controller 
     <IRQ 5>, IRQ 10, IRQ 11, IRQ 15, IRQ 3, IRQ 14, Disabled 

The Magic Christian responds:
The procedure requires a Future Domain FD-600/700, the IBM OEM'ed version of the same aka SCSI-2,  or something else that can run the DOS utility FDDSU.EXE that comes with 'Powerscsi4'

quote begin:

 'The following procedure should read the firmware parameters from a SCSI drive and then write those parameters back to the media. This will normally restore a fixed disk to the factory default parameters. Not all drives will support this procedure. Future Domain will not be responsible for the results stemming from the use or misuse of this procedure.

1. Insert the Future Domain "SETUP" utility.
2. Type "SETUP" and press <RETURN>.
3. A screen will appear displaying the SCSI ID  and LUN of the drive.
4. A menu will appear as follows:
    1. Format Unit
    2. Edit Defect List
    3. Surface Analysis
5. Press the <F5> function key to invoke the Custom Utility menu.
6. When you press <F5> a message will appear stating "you are about to
enter the Custom Utility...", answer yes to continue.
7. A menu will appear as follows:
    1. Format Unit
    2. Edit Defect List
    3. Surface Analysis
    4. Sense Byte Editor
8. Choose option 4. Sense Byte Editor.
9. A menu appears as follows:
    1. Mode Sense
    2. Write sense data to a file
    3. Read sense data from a file
    4. Print current list
    5. Edit current list
    6. Set options
10. Choose option 6. Set options.
11. A window appears and asks if you want to change Mode Select byte 1. Answer no.
12. You are asked if you want to change Mode Sense byte 2. Answer yes.
13. Enter the hex value "BF" and press <RETURN>
14. The Sense Edit menu appears. Select option 1. Mode Sense.
15. Now select option 5. Edit current list.
16. A window will open up in the left side of the screen. These are the
Page codes of the SCSI drive.
17. Press the <F7> function key. A message at the bottom of the screen
should say "Sense Info sent successfully".
18. Press <ESC> twice to exit back to the main menu.
19. Choose option 1. Format Unit.
20. When asked "Permission to format", answer yes.

   This should update the media with the parameters from the firmware. The drive must accept and finish the low-level format for the above procedure to work correctly. Also, some drives do not support a low-level format. When in doubt check with the drive manufacturer.

OS/2 Switches
The following drivers support Future Domain and IBM SCSI host adapters: 
      FD8XX.ADD supports Future Domain and IBM 8-bit SCSI adapters. 
      FD16-700.ADD supports FD 16-bit SCSI adapters 

BASEDEV= ---- FD8XX.ADD --------------------------------------
       - FD16-700.ADD -| - /ET -| Search SCSI devices for Logical Units
      +- FD7000EX.ADD -+ - /FS -| Enable fast synchronous data transfers 
                                                                                           (TMC-1850 chipset ONLY)
                       +- /RD:n+ Maximum device recovery time
  -------------------------------------------|
        +- /A:n ----------------------+ Adapter number
                    |- /!DM ----------|  Disable DASD Manager
                    |    +- :unitlist +  List of unit identifiers
                    |- /!SM  ---------| Disable SCSI Manager
                    |    +- :unitlist-+ List of unit identifiers
                    +- /ET  ----------|Search for Logical Units
                        +- :unitlist + List of unit identifiers

AdapterID 5F77 Future Domain SCSI Adapter

Memory Location
   Memory location used for the BIOS ROM
     <"Segment CA00" (ca00-cbff)>, C800 (c800-c9ff), CC00 (cc00-cdff), CE00 (ce00-cfff), D000 (d000-d1ff), D200 (d200-d3ff), D400 (d400-d5ff), D600 (d600-d7ff), D800 (d800-d9ff), DA00 (da00-dbff), DC00 (dc00-ddff), DE00 (de00-dfff)

DMA Arbitration Level
   DMA channel the adapter will use to transfer data.
     <"Level 6">, 7, 5, 0, 1, 3, 4

Select Interrupt Line
   Interrupt used by the SCSI controller
     <"Interrupt 5 (Reserved)">, 3 (Serial Alternate), 10 (Reserved), 11 (Reserved), 12 (Mouse), 14 (Fixed Disk), 5 (Reserved)" 

Use Front Panel Disk Busy Light
   Whether the front panel light is to be used by the SCSI devices to indicate that a SCSI device is busy.  The same light is also used by the internally installed hard drive.  There is no conflict if the same light is used by both devices.
      <"Use Front Panel Light">, Do Not Use Panel Light

Use MC BUS Wait (IBM Model 80)
   Select the extended synchronous bus cycle is to be used as the default fastest cycle on the transfer of DMA data to the SCSI device.  The Model 80 will not support full speed DMA writes via the uChannel bus, so this option is required for high speed devices on the Model 80.
      <"Use Wait State (Model 80)">, Do Not Use Wait State

Termpwr Fuse
   The Termpwr fuse is a PTC Resistor which goes to high resistance if too much current flows while providing Termination Power to the SCSI devices. When the overload is removed, the PTC resistor cools down and allows normal operation.