Procom Technology, Inc. Micro
Channel SCSI Enabler
@7F01.ADF"Procom
Technology, Inc. Micro Channel SCSI Enabler"
Runstream
MCABase NCR-206
Driver (beta version, may or may not work, see
below)
Original page by
William R. Walsh
is HERE
. All typos below are copyright my fingers.
DK0046.ZIP SCSI Enabler
Tape Driver Utilities for Sytos Plus rev 2.02
DK0074.ZIP SCSI Enabler
Drivers for DOS. OS/2 & NetWare (ASD &
OEM) rev 3.04
DK0079.ZIP Procom DOS Drivers for IBM SCSI Host Adapter
(ISHA) rev 1.05
DK0104.ZIP SCSI Enabler & Xelerator Software for
NetWare 3.1x/4.0 rev 1.03
DK0109.ZIP SCSI Enabler & SCSI Xelerator Software
for Windows NT rev 1.01
Outline
&
Components
P5
Function (assumed to be an unpopulated
external power connector)
Other
Stuff
Drivers
ADF
Sections
[from Us, god Emperor of Microchannel]
Procom
Technology,
Inc. Micro Channel SCSI Enabler
P2
- 50 pin high density SCSI
P3
- 50 pin internal SCSI
P4
- Internal power connector
P5
- Pads for 8 pin external connector
RP1-3
- Termpacks, removable
U1
- Spare (solder pads only)
U2
- Hyundai HY6116ALP-10 |
U3
- MC90004 V2.02
U4
- MC90004 V2.02
U8
- SMC 94C18 MCA Bus Interface
U20
- NCR "TolerANT" 53CF94-2
Y1
- 10.000MHz
U11
- 25.000MHz
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Function
of P5
A wild
guess here...these
pads might have been used to provide a connector for
powering external
SCSI storage boxes. Heavy traces leading to some of
the pads support this
theory as being plausible. Why was it left
unpopulated? I'd assume the
possibility of overloading it was too great. There's
no room to print a
warning about the power limits of this plug, and
high performance drives
would exceed the current rating for most cards with
power connectors.
Other
Stuff
This is
the card of many
copyrights. The base board has a copyright of 1989
printed on it. The ROMs
are copyrighted 1994, and the NCR SCSI IC is
copyrighted 1992. Datecodes
on various ICs put the date of manufacture sometime
in early 1994 or very
late in 1993.
What
does the "TolerANT"
name on an NCR SCSI IC mean? I've seen it on RAID
controllers, where the
meaning would be obvious. This board (and some
others that I've seen) is
not a RAID controller!
What is the
difference between the
NCR 53C94 and 53CF94?
If
memory serves, David
Beem used one of these adapters (note the white end
tabs above) to create
"Patriot", the red, white and blue 55SX.
This adapter is
capable of working
with a 2GB hard disk with the 2.02 ROMs in place. It
may even go as far
as supporting an 8GB drive.
Drivers-
None of
Windows 95, 98
or NT appear to recognize the 53CF94 chip. The beta
NCR-206
driver mentioned at the top of this page MAY
work, but I've
not had a chance to test it. If you try it, proceed
at your own risk.
Procom
Technology is still
in business, but their website is badly broken and
the FTP site doesn't
work at all. Does anyone have the option disk or
other information that
would have come with this adapter?
Copyright 2006
William R. Walsh. All
Rights Reserved.
AdapterID
7F01h "Procom
Technology, Inc. Micro Channel SCSI Enabler"
Adapter I/O Address Range
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler uses 32
consecutive I/O port
addresses. If more than one Procom MC SCSI Enabler
is installed in
the system, each must have a separate Adapter I/O
Address Range.
<"2920h-293Fh">,
3A40-3A5F, 4B60-4B7F, 5C80-5C9F, 6DA0-6DBF, 7EC0-7EDF,
8FE0-8FFF
Adapter Base Memory Address
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler requires 10K of
contiguous ROM space.
If more than one Procom MC SCSI Enabler is installed in
the system, each
must have a separate Adapter Base Memory Address
<"DC000h">,
D8000, D4000,
D0000, CC000, C8000
Adapter Interrupt Select
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler requires
the use of one
IRQ line. If more than one Procom MC SCSI Enabler is
installed in the system,
they all can share one common IRQ line
<"IRQ
10">, 11,
14, 15
DMA Arbitration Level
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler uses the host
DMA to transfer
data. The Enabler will use the DMA channel
corresponding to the selected
arbitration level. If more than one Procom MC SCSI
Enabler is installed
in the system, each must have a separate DMA Arbitration
Level.
<"Level 6" >,
7, 0, 1,
3, 4, 5
Fairness On/Off
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler supports the
Micro Channel
Fairness feature. When <ON>, the SCSI
Enabler will not participate
in the next arbitration after the bus has been requested
by another peripheral.
When <OFF>, the SCSI Enabler will participate in
all arbitrations.
<"Fairness
ON ">, Fairness OFF
DMA Burst On/Off
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler supports the
Micro Channel
Bursting feature. When <OFF>, the SCSI
Enabler will arbitrate
for the Micro Channel bus for each word
transferred. When <ON>,
the SCSI Enabler will continue sending words over the
Micro Channel as
long as there are words to transfer and as long as no
other peripheral
requests the Micro Channel.
<"DMA
Bursting
ON ">, DMA Bursting OFF
Adapter's SCSI ID
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler must have a SCSI
ID number.
The ID may be any number from zero to seven which is not
used by any other
device on the SCSI bus. Ordinarily, the SCSI
Enabler should use <SCSI
ID 7>. Each SCSI cable may support 8 SCSI IDs
(0-7). If more
than one Procom MC SCSI Enabler is installed in the
system, each may control
its own physically separate SCSI cable. Thus, each
SCSI cable may
support 8 SCSI IDs (0-7)."
<"SCSI
ID 7">,
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
SCSI Parity Checking
The Procom MC SCSI Enabler is capable of
detecting SCSI
parity errors. When SCSI Parity Checking is set to
<Check SCSI
Parity>, the SCSI Enabler will attempt to re-send or
re-receive the data
block over the SCSI which contained the parity error.
When SCSI Parity
Checking is set to <Ignore SCSI Parity>, the SCSI
Enabler will not check
for any data parity errors. Since parity checking
is handled through
hardware, no performance degradation is
introduced. Thus, under normal
circumstances SCSI Parity Checking should be set to
<Check SCSI Parity>.
<"Check SCSI
Parity" >,
Ignore SCSI Parity
Synchronous Data Transfers
The MC SCSI Enabler is capable of using
synchronous data
transfers and will attempt to do so if the SCSI device
being accessed is
also capable. Some SCSI devices do not handle
extended messaging
properly and may hang the system during power-up. If you
have a problem
device that you suspect can not handle these type of
messages, select <Disabled>
<"Enabled">, Disabled
Maximum DOS Drive Support
This setting selects the maximum number of
drives to be
supported directly by the BIOS without the use of an
external driver with
the Disk Operating System. DOS version 5.0 allows
up to 8 drives
to be supported. DOS versions below 5.0 may hang
the system if more
than 2 drives are reported as being supported by the
BIOS.
If more
than 1 SCSI
Enabler is installed, the one with the lowest memory
address will determine
the setting for all Enablers installed. If OS/2 2.0 or
DOS 5.0 is being
installed, select
<Support up to 8 drives>, otherwise select
<Support up
to 2 drives>
<
"Support up to
2 drives">, Support up to 8 drives
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