Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!srm From: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Hard disk interfaces Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 01:08:52 GMT References: <1975@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 38 In article <1975@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > In <4411@crash.cts.com>, hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes: > > I have seen a 200 megbyte Conner drive with a IDE interface, for an IBM. > >I have never heard of this interface type. Can this be made to connect to a > >SCSI port on a GVP controller or any AMiga SCSI controller for that matter? > > IDE is a 'native IBM PC(lone) interface', having most of the controller/host > adapter functions on the motherboard of those machines. > > It is not easily adapted to SCSI opreration, if at all. It is a completely > different interface. The only way to connect one of these, that I know of, is > with the GVP '030 board, or an A590, both of which have an IDE interface. I just recently took a visit with the owner of Panamax (I can't remember the name off hand). He has a product that will interface IBM controller cards to the Amiga Bus (500/1000/2000/3000) seamlessly. He's beenorking with the IDE drives but has found some variances between them to make it difficult to apply the same driver to all IDE drives. For the benefit of finding a low cost HD solution for me I loaned him my Conner 200MB drive w/IDE interface to work out a minor problem he had with it while I was working with him. The product he offers as a whole appears to be very solid. If anyone is interested in the progress of my Conner with this interface E-mail me and I'll post it along with the Spec Sheet for his controller... srm -- Scott R. Myers Snail: 26 Stiles Street Phone:(201)882-3100 Apartment 18 Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Arpa: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu Uucp: ..!dimacs!srm "... No matter where you go, there you are ..."