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Oktagon 2000 & 2008
Company
BSC / Alfa Data
, Germany
Date
1991 / 1993
Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000
Interface
Zorro II
Autoconfig ID
2049 / 5,8
2092 / 5,8
SCSI 2 controller
NCR 53C94 @ 25 MHz
does not use DMA but interrupt driven programmed I/O
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external SCSI connector for both snap-in and screw-in connectors
Slow Cable Mode for external devices with long cables
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM (oktagon.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
ROM versions less than 6.5 may have problems with removable media devices
the ROM uses a MOVEP operation - which is an illegal instruction on the 68060 - making troubles during bootup on 68060 systems
RDB compatible
hard disk activity LED connector
hard disk controller disable jumper
A-Max II driver
supported by Linux
Oktagon 2000 (
)
no memory expansion
also called as A.L.F. 3
Oktagon 2008
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB 16 bit RAM
supports either static column or page mode 1M×4 ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations
memory disable jumper
Photos
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 3, front side
Rev 3, back side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 7, front side
Rev 7, back side
Manual
BSC-HD.pdf
Controller Hardware and Software Installation Manual (english/german)
443 kB
Driver / Installation Disk
Oktagon-32.dms
install disk v3.2
HDInstTools v3.2 (07.12.94), OktagonMount 6.8 (30.11.94), GigaMem 3.0 (06.12.92)
455 kB
Oktagon-215.dms
install disk v2.15
HDInstTools v2.15 (23.9.93), OktagonMount 4.4 (17.05.93), GigaMem 3.0 (06.12.92)
377 kB
Oktagon-13.dms
install disk v1.3
ALF.device v2.13, oktagon.device v3.20
369 kB
BSC_GigaMem-20.dms
GigaMem v2.0
vmem.library v1.0
135 kB
Oktagon_ROM-612.zip
ROM v6.12 for Oktagon 508/2008
14 kB
oktapus.lha
Aminet
OktaPussy v2.1 (24.11.98)
106 kB
Vintage Advert
Advert (US)
1994-02
Advert (US)
1994-05
Advert (DE)
1991-11
Advert (DE)
1992-10