Apparently, the DQ696 was a bug-fixed version of the 686.
I have the complete manual - and I did put it on my ftp site for somebody to copy.
Alas, my ISP is now blocking access to me for FTP (residential adsl line), so can
the person who downloaded the manual from me share it with others?  (The other
problem is that I accidentally deleted it, and would have to re-scan it, which I
will do if we can't find the person who downloaded it!!!)

The manual doesn't have max disk size, but has examples of cyl 1186 and has lines
for 16 heads. 65 sectors @512 bytes/sector were common.  I can't remember how EsDI
did cyl addresses because there aren't lines for it.  I have seen 760 meg drives on
it (I have a 380).

Regards,
Nigel Johnson, VE3ID

Douglas Meade wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Of course, you're right.  I pulled the disk cables off and saw that
> this board is indeed a Dilog DQ696.  This is not listed on the Hamster's
> site (www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/modules.html) but he does show the
> DQ686 and the SM696.  Hm.
>
> How the question is, what's the next step to get it to work with
> NetBSD?  Try switching boards around?  For example, now the RDQX3
> is on the bottom and the Dilog is on the top.  VMS sees them both
> OK, but NetBSD doesn't.
>
> By the way, does anybody know how large an ESDI drive this controller
> will support?
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> > >something on the disks.  In addition to the RDQX3 with one RD54 disk,
> > >it has a controller made by Dilog, with the number "90710" on the
> > >plastic handle.  It's attached by MFM/RLL cables to two Maxtor
> > >XT8380E's, which say they're 390 Mb each on the faceplace.  The
>
> >   Sounds like an MSCP-emulating controller.  Look for a "DQxxx" number on the
> > board; 90710 doesn't sound like a Dilog model number.  If VMS sees it as DUB,
> > then it's addressed as the second controller (the first would be DUA).  If I
> > recall correctly that'd be CSR address 0160334.