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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Connecting Macintosh Hard Disks to Atari
Message-ID: <2127@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 91 08:59:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.002657.10286@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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zimm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes:
>I already have a hard disk with ICD controller, so it shouldn't be too
>tough to do; there even seems to be some kind of SCSI plug on the back of my
>hard disk. 

If that SCSI connector is an 25 pin SUB D connector (the same as the
printer port of the ST), You will need nothing but the Macintosh
harddisk susbsystem. The 25 pin connector "standard" is set by the Mac;
cables from this connector to the drive should be included with the
drive.
You have the ICD software to format and partition the disk, ans Spectre
will use it fine.
If You have a 50 pin (well, the contacts are not pins really) Amphenol
connector (the "real" SCSI connector), that looks like the parallel
connector of Your parallel printer, Youll probably need an adaptor. 50
to 25 pin adaptors are pretty much nonstandard, but Your Mac drive will
probably have the same 50 pin connector, ans 50 to 50 pin cables *are*
standard.
Termination of the cables *is* a problem. Refer to your ICD manual and
the manual of Your Mac drive.

>my ST hard drive? How do I go about doing 2)? What is the chance
>that this won't work at all? (The hard drive I'm planning to connect
>is one of the Syquest 44 meg removable's; probably the one made
>by Jasmine.)

If it does not work, the drive is broken. Mine works fine.
If You format the cartridge on the Mac, You can even exchange it with a
"real" Mac (I am doing this sometimes).

hase
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