Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-30 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 6/30/2022 4:05 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 12:34 PM Douglas Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Update - I have 3 of these Viking controllers, 2 are rebadged to Alphatronix. 1. I was able to 'kludge' together jumpers to connect a laptop serial port

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-30 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 12:34 PM Douglas Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Update - I have 3 of these Viking controllers, 2 are rebadged to > Alphatronix. > > 1. I was able to 'kludge' together jumpers to connect a laptop serial > port to the controller. Pin 20 IDC -> pin 2 DB-9,

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-30 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
Update -  I have 3 of these Viking controllers, 2 are rebadged to Alphatronix. 1. I was able to 'kludge' together jumpers to connect a laptop serial port to the controller.  Pin 20 IDC -> pin 2 DB-9, pin 22 IDC -> pin 3 DB-9 and pin 24 or 25 IDC -> pin 5 DB-9.  It didn't seem to matter if you

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:21 PM Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > On Jun 28, 2022, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > For the UDT at least the RS232 lines are regular RS232 and the plug I > made for communicating with it was just an old PC serial pigtail

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Jun 28, 2022, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > > For the UDT at least the RS232 lines are regular RS232 and the plug I made > for communicating with it was just an old PC serial pigtail bodged onto a > short SCSI ribbon cable. > > I would expect CON to be CONfiguration por

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> On Jun 28, 2022, at 1:29 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 6/28/2022 12:58 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor >> which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the >> controller

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 6/28/2022 12:58 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the controller board and do various things. Looking at the manual on bitsavers there is almost

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 6/28/22 13:33, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: On Jun 28, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the controller board and do various thi

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Jun 28, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor > which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the > controller board and do various things. > > Looking at the manual on bitsave

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hm, is it just a 5 to 12 volt adapter? You can do that with a max232 chip or just buy one. On 6/28/2022 12:58 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the

Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

2022-06-28 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the controller board and do various things. Looking at the manual on bitsavers there is almost enough info to construct my own adapter board.  Has anyo