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From: clf3678@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wanted Info on SCSI HARD DRIVE interfacing !!!
Summary: Hooking it up
Message-ID: <1663@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 89 18:28:37 GMT
References: <2608@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.L. Freemesser)
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In article <2608@gos.ukc.ac.uk> shc1@ukc.ac.uk (S.H.Cogheil) writes:
>Recently I acquired through various sources 
>
>	1 ICD HOST ADAPTER
>	1 Western Digital (WD383R) 3.5" 30mb RLL HARD DRIVE
>	1 Western Digital (WD1004-27x) 8-bit RLL Controller card (XT Compatible)
>
>Now my problem is that I wish to get these things going together,

Hooking it up should not be very difficult.  You will need a SCSI board.
For an RLL drive, you need an Adaptec 4070.  They can be had for as
little as $70.  The connections are:

1) drive to Adaptec:  (1) 20 pin and (1) 34 pin cable.
2) Adaptec to ICD: (1) 50 pin cable.
3) ICD to ST: Use the supplied 19 pin DMA cable.

The software with the ICD will do all the formatting.  However, I don't
recall them listing Western Digital drives.  You will need to know the
head/cylinder configuration to format it.

Hope this help.


Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology :BITNET:%clf3678@RITVAX
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