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Trantor T100/NEC CD-XT001

mbbrutman

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I have one that appears to be in good working condition. The device driver (MA100.SYS) loads and finds SCSI devices, but it is not behaving well:

  • I have a SCSI hard drive and a SCSI CD-ROM on the chain - it finds both, but if the hard drive is in the chain it identifies the CD-ROM as a generic block access device (wrong), and if the hard drive is powered off it identifies the CD-ROM as removable optical media (correct).
  • TSCSI.SYS and TLSCDR.SYS find no devices they can use.
  • SCSITEST finds the devices but is not printing the vendor ID strings.

The setup is known good for other ISA SCSI cards, including newer Trantor/Adaptec cards. It's just this very primitive T100 that doesn't seem fully baked.

I'm on PCjr running DOS 5 with my hacked up ISA adapter. Yes, I know - I'll move it to an XT or something more proper when I really get desperate. But for a simple card like this it should not be an issue. (The T130B works fine.)

Does anybody have a working sample of this card?


Mike
 
Does your card have a BIOS by any chance? I found one very much like it, but there's an empty socket where the boot ROM should be.
 
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