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From: jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 and the known Multiverse
Keywords: A500
Message-ID: <12484@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 22:19:38 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.135318.3247@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1990Sep6.154350.23405@agora.uucp>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1990Sep6.154350.23405@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
>	I'm confused... This is a simple one, don't know why you haven't
>gotten answers. Pretty much any of the SCSI controller for the 500 have
>software support for the Seagate drives. All you need to do is buy or build
>a power supply/case to stick the drive in and hook up the cables.

You're overlooking something, Bill. SCSI controllers control SCSI drives.
There are non-SCSI Seagate drives, y'know :-). The cheap ones will usually
be ST-506, which is what my assumption was.
Of course, you are right about a power supply, which I had forgotten about.
I got mine from another surplus house for about $15.

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