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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hooking up a Hard Drive
Message-ID: <18356@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 09:14:22 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.221022.14154@isc.rit.edu> <1991Jan29.232823.24617@agora.rain.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan29.232823.24617@agora.rain.com> billsey@agora.rain.com (Bill Seymour) writes:
>	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.

	I doubt that HDToolBox can deal with formatting an Adaptec ACB-4000A
or 4070A.  We looked at it a bit originally, but when we hit a wall we canned
it.  The problem is that it requires a highly non-standard MODE_SELECT command
to tell it what the drive is (HIGHLY non-standard).  You can use scsidirect
to do the initial format from a program, and from then on HDToolBox
should be able to deal with it.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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