Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SASI = SCSI?
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.222821.12163@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <86715@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 1991 22:28:21 GMT

In article <86715@unix.cis.pitt.edu> kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
>	Now, someone told me that the SASI interface is a relative
>	of SCSI.

SASI is SCSI's grizzled old ancestor.  They are nominally still interoperable,
last I heard.

> Does anyone know if I can hook up a hard drive
>	to the ST506 side and the SASI side to a Macintosh and
>	expect this to work? 

Maybe.  There is no *fundamental* reason for this to be unworkable, but much
depends on details.  (E.g., is the Mac expecting a more modern controller
and trying to exploit post-SASI features?)
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