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From: billsey@agora.rain.com (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hooking up a Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.232823.24617@agora.rain.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 23:28:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.221022.14154@isc.rit.edu>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <1991Jan16.221022.14154@isc.rit.edu> smc8516@ultb.rit.edu (S.M. Curtin) writes:
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:A friend of mine recently got an old Xetec hard drive system for the 64
:or 128 and wants to hook it up to his 3000. Apparently, some sort of
:SCSI converter plugged into the 64 and went to the HD box via a 25 pin
:cable and was switched internally to a 50 pin standard SCSI ribbon. It
:then goes through an Omti SCSI to ST-506 converter board and into a
:standard 40 meg st-506 style drive. The unit also has its own power
:supply.

	If I remember right, those old Xetec drives for the 64 were SASI.
not SCSI. There is a very good chance that many of the base SCSI commands
that his 3000 uses aren't implemented in that old SASI interface. Probably
what he'll need to do to get it all working is replace the OMTI (didn't
say which number) with either a newer OMTI (7x00 or 3520) or an Adaptec
(ACB-4000A or ACB-5500). Either of those should work fine, and there's a
chance that the HDToolbox software may even recognise it. If not, you can
format on someone elses machine, then just use it on the 3000.

:...Sean.
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