I built 5 of these over a year ago and then never really did anyything with them because I got sidetracked on other projects, which happens a lot.
Anyway, I was trying them with VIBR's disk emulator board using the latest v0.80.1 firmware and I have the board set to SmartPort mode, the image selected all connected to a regular Disk II controller.
But when I hook it to one of my SmartDiskII boards it doesn't appear to get any power. It doesn't boot, if I try PR#5 (or whatever slot I have it in) , it says "NO DEVICE ATTACHED".
One of the questions I had when I was building these boards if I remember right (and my memory is sketchy at best) is that nobody could give me answers on how the solder pad jumpers on the back of the board need to be set up. I suspect how I have it right now is wrong, as I have no solder pads filled at all. Can anyone who has a working board in SmartPort (or even just Disk II) mode tell met which pads need to be filled or send me a pic of the back of one of your boards?
Here is the Github Repo. It should have all the docs you need. https://github.com/btb/SmartDiskII
That's the problem, it doesn't. The only documentation there is the README and it says absolutely nothing about what the solder pads do or how they need to be configured.
The only jumper documented in the README is JP8 which says is to force Disk ][ mode. That;s on the front side. There is no mention at all about the back side.
Same issue for me,
I can not get to boot from the emulator where using a Softsp like card it is working...
Well, I guess I'm going to have to find one of my Grappler+ cards or dig out one of my Yellowstone cards or my LiRON. I had been hoping to use one of these SmartDiskII both because I'd like to use what I built but also just because I have them handy.