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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: MIO board and imbedded SCSI drives...
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Date: 23 Mar 90 04:56:05 GMT
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mgh1@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (matthew.g.hetman) writes:
>In article <1872@crash.cts.com>, jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>> I got an ICD 1989-1990 product catalog yesterday and I went looking through it
>> and it says that the MIO does not support imbedded SCSI drives.  Does this
>> mean that a drive such as a Seagate ST157N will not work?  Also, what's the
>> status of the T-816 and MIO board playing nice together?
>>      // JCA
>
>The only reason imbedded drives are not fully supported is that to work 
>with the MIO, they must be able to support 256 byte sectors. The only embedded 
>drive that does this that I know of is the Seagate 225N. The Blackbox 
>interface on the other hand deos support both 256 and 512 size sectors. Thus 
>it can be used with more types of drives.

Then why didn't ICD make a piece of driver software to remap the 512 sectors
(or blocks) to 256 sectors?  There are other drives that do allow for 256
byte blocks.  The CDC Wrens (at least the Wren VI I know for sure) do. 
They're changeable from 256 to 1024 size blocks (or sectors).  Since I've
formed a love/hate relationship with the Wren VI, I've become somewhat well
versed in what it can do.
 
     // JCA

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