On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:37:59AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> CS> >Along the same lines, i have a "Central Data" "SCSI Terminal Server" model
> CS> >ST-1016 sitting around here.  Unfortunately, it's so old, that the company
> CS> >that acquired the original manufacturer (digi.com) posses (or is unwilling)
> CS> >to release and specs about the unit.
> CS> >
> CS> >The device contains 16 25pin TIA/EIA RS-232 ports and has a mini50 pin scsi
> CS> >interface w/ passthrough.
> CS> >
> CS> >Unforunately, I've also lost the AC->DC power adapter for it, otherwise I
> CS> >would try to attach it to a scsi bus and probe it.
> 
> Yes, but unfortunately, the work described here seems to reflect newer
> models.

Ha ha, you said "newer"!  I started my crazy project for a model about the 
same age (but branded to Motorola, even down to the SCSI Vendor).

You have an ST-1016, which you should have no problem communicating
with...  assuming to figure out how to get it powered up.  :)

You can find firmware updates here:
ftp://ftp.digi.com/support/centraldata/firmware/
(I've actually mirrored all of them now on my site too)
Oops, I lied, there isn't any firmware for it.  If you want, I can try and 
find someone to bug at Digi to get one generated.

The SCSI command interface on my webpage should work for it too:
http://outflux.net/unix/software/sts/sts-specs-clean.txt

Unforutnately, I continue to not have my Linux 2.4 changes up.  I ran into 
a problem with Digi's half of the kernel driver, and was waiting for them 
to send me an EtherLite so I could reproduce the problem.  I haven't 
gotten back to doing that, though.  :)

From the mailing lists, are you trying to get this device running with 
netbsd?  If so, you should find some of my utilities of interest.  I wrote 
a user-space driver that uses pty's, which should compile without too much 
tricky business.  There is also a firmware updating tool.

If you port any of that stuff, please let me know.  I'd love to say that 
the STSs can run on more than just Solaris, (sorta) NT, (sorta) AIX, and 
(sorta) Linux.  :)

Good luck!

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net