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From: fortinp@bwdls56.Berkeley.EDU (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Re: Connecting Macintosh Hard Disks to Atari
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.232046.29926@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: fortinp@bwdls56.Berkeley.EDU (Pierre Fortin)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar23.002657.10286@leland.Stanford.EDU> <2127@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 23:20:46 GMT

In article <2127@netmbx.UUCP>, hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
|>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. 

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|>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. 

Actually, this is (according to the SCSI-1 spec) the "alternative 2" connector.
The "real" connector is a double-row "header"-type connector.

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|>Termination of the cables *is* a problem. Refer to your ICD manual and
|>the manual of Your Mac drive.

I had to modify my ICD HA (just last night) to allow the use of a cable
terminator;
ICD does (did?) not provide TERMPWR (+5V on pin 26).  The result was
that a SCSI
terminator would kill the SCSI bus.

|>hase
|>-- 
|>Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP
|>Hi! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
                                  
Cheers,                      
Pierre Fortin       fortinp@bnr.ca         (613)763-2598