Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:1275 sci.electronics:9639 comp.os.cpm:3135 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!mintaka!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!lectroid!cloud9!jjmhome!cpoint!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,sci.electronics,comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: IBM bus to SCSI adaptor//IOMEGA controller transplant Keywords: IOmega SCSI SASI Message-ID: <11316@frog.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 90 23:39:00 GMT References: <369@flash.UUCP> <8361@ingr.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us Lines: 16 In article <8361@ingr.com>, phil@ingr.com (Phil Johnson) writes: > The original IOmega boxes were SASI interfaces, but IOmega changed to SCSI > several years ago. > > The SASI interface is indeed the predecessor of SCSI, but they are not > compatible. > This depends on what kind of demands you make upon the controllers. Here we use SCSI devices from SASI host adaptors (and vice versa) with great success. The SCSI bus is certainly a wild and improper superset of SASI, but the ancestry shows through quite strongly. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu Happiness is Planet Earth in your rear-view mirror. - Sam Hurt