Path: blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ucbvax!IDEANET.DOE.STATE.IN.US!jcountry From: jcountry@IDEANET.DOE.STATE.IN.US (Jack Countryman IAC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: CMS card and write protect Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 94 05:46:31 GMT References: <2vkoda$e0r@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 77 On 8 Jul 1994, John Blaby wrote: > This info is needed for a friend. > > She has a CMS hard drive controller and wants to configure it to run a > 20 meg drive for a //e. She has no documentation whatsoever. Can > anyone help out with jumper settings and any other pertinant > information? > > Thanks in advance.. > John According to the CMS manual, page D3, the six sets of eight pairs of jumpers (u1....u6) are for the following purpose: ______________________________________________________________________ / | / u 1 u 2 u 3 u 4 j2 | / | / | | | | | | | | | | | | u 5 u 6 | |___________________________________________ j1 | | | |_____________________________| u 1: Boot Scan delay....manual shows no jumpers here in default configuration u 2: first (left) jumper is 'Enable I.C.P. (Yes/No)', middle 6 not used, last (right) is 'multiple initiators (Yes/No)'...manual shows no jumpers in default configuration u 3: Selection phase time out delay....I believe this sets how long the card waits for the drive to come up to speed(?)...manual shows the default as having 4, 5, and 7 with jumpers installed u 4: Arbitration phase time out delay....manual shows default as no jumpers installed u 5: Bus Free phase time out delay...manual shows default as jumper on number 1 u 6: Interrupt recovery delay....manual shows jumpers on 3, 4, and 5 j1 and j2 are single sets of pins....the manual says J2 is not used, but J1 is to be jumpered. ......................................................................... The card I have here, came out of a IIGS where it was hooked to first a twenty meg CMS drive, and later a forty meg CMS drive. It has the following jumpers set: u1: jumper on 7 u2: no jumpers u3: jumpers on 4, 5, and 7 u4: no jumpers u5: jumper on 1 u6: jumpers on 3, 4, and 5 j2: no jumper j1: jumper As I recall, this setup yeilded a rather long pause for the hard disk to come up to speed (about 40 to 45 seconds) that we found necessary at the time to avoid boot problems. Good luck....