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From: kawakami@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami)
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Subject: Re: SCSI observation
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Date: 20 Jan 91 03:15:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jan19.161057.44274@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>  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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The SCSI-Spectre incompatibility problem probably has more to do with the
way the Mac software deals with SCSI.

Dave Small seems to have written software to convert the Mac disk file I/O
into something that the Atari/GCR can do.  Mac SCSI devices probably demand
more specificity and might even bypass the OS software if it is inadequate.
If the last thing is not the case, then there might be a software (non
megatalk) method of using Mac SCSI devices on the ST.  Of course, since 
Small was revving up with appletalk compatibility anyway, it probably made
more sense to do SCSI in hardware anyway.


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