SCSI Parity Generator

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· 21 Nov 2021

The following upgrade was originally found on Jo Even Skarstein's homepage.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~josk/atari/hardware_mods/parity_gen.html

SCSI Parity Generator

This is the Parity generation logic that solves the problem for those Atari users that use SCSI adaptors without parity. As you can see it consists of one single 74HC280 chip. The easiest place to get to the SCSI signals is the harddisk itself. You can use the four pin connector's red pin for +5V and the black for GROUND.

This parity generator has been tested with the following adaptors:

ICD Link 1 (the first type)
Megafile 44 SCSI adaptor
Mega STE SCSI adaptor
Protar SCSI adaptor

Pinout of the 74HC280

         74HC280 

       +---\_/---+ 
    D6 |1      14| +5V 
    D7 |2      13| D5 
    NC |3      12| D4 
 INPUT |4      11| D3 
  EVEN |5      10| D2 
   ODD |6       9| D1 
   GND |7       8| D0 
       +---------+

The logical schematic for added parity generation

  74HC280                    SCSI-bus 
 +--------+                  +-------+ 
 |     P8 | D0------------D0 | P2    | 
 |     P9 | D1------------D1 | P4    | 
 |    P10 | D2------------D2 | P6    | 
 |    P11 | D3------------D3 | P8    | 
 |    P12 | D4------------D4 | P10   | 
 |    P13 | D5------------D5 | P12   | 
 |     P1 | D6------------D6 | P14   | 
 |     P2 | D7------------D7 | P16   | 
 |     P6 | ODD------ PARITY | P18   | 
 |        |                  +-------+ 
 |    P14 | +5V 
 |        | 
 |     P3 | NO CONNECTION 
 |     P5 | NO CONNECTION 
 |        | 
 |     P4 | INPUT--+ 
 |     P7 | GND----| 
 +--------+        | 
                  GND