Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, feldmann@x wrote:
> > ISTR,
> 
> [ISTR = I Seem To Recall ] for those who, just like me, did not 
> know...

Sorry - I've been using email for far too long :-)


> > I've no idea how to change the host SCSI ID on a Series III
> 
> Possibly on the SCSI adapter card.

It's more subtle than that - when SCSI was introduced it was a radical
concept to actually have a bus that could be re-configured - on many
Flex / OS9 / other embedded systems, developers at that time didn't
have the vision that users may want to re-configure their systems - so
it's entirely possible (probable!) that the SCSI ID for the host is
hard coded into the software - but I may be wrong.

*If* it's possible to change the host ID and *if* the operating system
supports volumes being mounted by different hosts on the bus then in
theory it should be possible.

My apologies for the number of caveat statements in there but a) I
don't know for sure and b) ten years of working with these kind of
systems when they were new (os9 and Flex - not Fairlight) taught me
that people didn't envisage changes being part of the way the system
would be used!


> Having such a list public would definitely help in identifying bogus
> material being offered on e-bay or elsewhere.

I'm not so sure - the spoofers are getting *very* sophisticated - they
would find a way of getting this database if it meant there was value
in it for them :-(


I would also suggest some of the documentation that's around the net -
like on Herman Seib's website - the Series II service and page R
manuals - if all that could be compiled to one source it would be
excellent.

Philip