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From: kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: SCSI observation
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.161057.44274@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 91 16:04:57 GMT
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There has been quite a bit of discussion about whether SCSI devices will work
with the Spectre and ST world.  I don't have a Spectre, so I can't specify for
that machine, BUT the components DO work!
  I bought an ICD host adapter, and an ST296N mechanism, (with power supply),
and had that running just fine on the ST...after a while, I decided I needed
more storage on my Mac plus.  I had two 20MB Mac harddrives.
  All I did was switch the SCSI mechanisms.  I took the two 20MB mechnisms, and
hooked them into the cable coming off the back of the ICD, and put the 296N on
the cable on the inside of one of the 20MB cases.  Boom!  40MB on the ST, and
85MB on the Mac.  It worked.
  What I'm getting at is that the mechanisms SHOULD work interchangably, right?
  If the ST can 'see' the SCSI device, then is there any reason the Spectre
won't?  Seems like you'd just have to format a spectre-specific partition, and
you're off and running...

  
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| Ken Corey                       |                                         |
| kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu           | "Look, I just can't work up the energy  |
| SysOp:Intersect BBS             |   to be concerned about apathy."        |
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