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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 and the known Multiverse
Keywords: A500
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.183720.21334@agora.uucp>
Date: 29 Sep 90 18:37:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.135318.3247@cl.cam.ac.uk> <12468@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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In article <12468@ogicse.ogi.edu> jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) writes:
:In article <1990Sep5.135318.3247@cl.cam.ac.uk> phg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Philip Gladwin) writes:
::Simple: has anyone any experience of linking up a cheap, say Seagate
::hard drive to a SCSI Amiga Controller and thence into a simple A500, 
::saving about $300 in the process. There seems to be an assumption that 
::it would be possible, but has any one actually done it? What are the 
::products you used? Does it work? What are the pitfalls?
:
:The method is simple. Adaptec makes a SCSI adapter (the 4000, if memory
:serves me) which can be found in surplus/outlet store ads in Computer
:Shopper for about $89. This adapts an existing ST-506 drive to a SCSI
:interface, such as the Supra.

	But this isn't nearly as cheap as just buying a scsi drive.
Remember that the days when scsi drives cost $100 more than non scsi
drives are gone. I see that this months Computer Shopper has a number
of ads for the Seagate ST-277N 60M scsi drive for less than $350.

:Not all SCSI interfaces will support the Adaptec. I know that Supra
:specifically does. I know that Microbotics and Commodore don't.
:
:How cheap the solution is depends on how cheaply you can get the
:components.
:
:
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