despoix@imag.imag.fr (Frederic DESPOIX) (11/25/89)
Here is a summary of answers i got from different sources : * in its mailshot of November 1989, INMOS announce the IMS B422 SCSI TRAM. It is a card with a T222, an SCSI interface, 64Ko SRAM and four INMOS link. I imagine this card was first design to drive SCSI add-ons, like hard disk, optical disk, and so on. The transputer is MASTER of the bus. I only can hope the will provide software for the transputer to be slave, receiving request from the SCSI bus, and sending them to its links. Wait for more. I have a surface mail address and an e-mail one : The Mailshot Editor SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative Rutherfors Appleton Laboratory Chilton, DIDCOT, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK tel : 0235 44 5787 Fax : 0235 44 5831 e-mail : tpm@uk.ac.rl.inf (i hope you want have the same problem i had to reach UK sites) * INRIA is planing on developping an SCSI board, as describe in an earlier posting, in this newsgroup. I just give you the adress : INRIA Louis AUDOIRE, Jean-jacques CODANI BP 105 78153 Le CHESNAY CEDEX FRANCE e-mail : audoire@inria.inria.fr, codani@inria.inria.fr * Stephen F LUNDSTOM told me to contact Computer Systems Architects in Provo, Utah. He says they have a card that plugs in a PC for power supply, with a T and SCSI interface chip. e-mail : csa@adam.byu.edu Tel : 801 374 2300 Fax : 801 374 2306 I e-mailes but did not get any answer. Anybody there ??? * Wm LELER told me Cogent Research XTM had such an SCSI interface. I am now reading PARIS telephone book, looking for Scientific Computer SARL, distributor of XTM. If you have more information ... All this is for finding an alternative to VME or AT bus card, since more and more workstations have SCSI, and no VME or AT bus extension. In fact we need more links going out of the card than transputers themselves. Now, i would like points of view : SCSI interface was design for device like disk. Transfers deal with blocks like 512 bytes. Isn't that silly to use SCSI to access INMOS links ? (That is what one of my friends told me !) Fred. NOTA BENE : A moins que cela ne soit explicitement ecrit, personne de mon entourage ne peut etre tenu pour responsable de ma prose. Except if it is actually written, no one is responsible but me for what i write. ___________________________________________________________________________ DESPOIX Frederic, despoix@imag.imag.fr Laboratoire de Genie Informatique despoix@imag Domaine Universitaire uunet.uu.net!imag!despoix Bat M047 B.P. 68 38402 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES CEDEX France Tel : (33)76.51.46.00 ext. 51.43 Fax : (33)76.44.66.75 Tx : UJF 980 134 F