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From: nesbbx!billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: QIC-02 Streamer
Message-ID: <192e61e2.ARN0111@nesbbx.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 91 00:48:34 GMT
References: <54173@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
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In article <54173@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, Jeffrey A. Pietro writes:

> Okay all you Amiga Hardware Gurus...
> 
> I have an Archive Corporation 60MB Streamer drive.  It has a QIC-02
> interface, and I was wondering if there was any way to use it with my
> A2000.  I have a MicroBotics HardFrame SCSI Controller (with a
> Quantum 105M Hard Drive attached).  I tried calling adaptec, on
> advice from other gurus, but got no help from them (they don't make a
> SCSI <-> QIC-02 adapter).  They mentioned a Wang Tech (?) controller
> that would work; but, only in the AT slots, and I don't want to buy a
> bridgeboard just to make this Streamer work...;-)
> 
> Does anybody make SCSI <-> QIC-02 adapters?

	Try the OMTI 7400 series or the older OMTI 5400 series cards. They
both had QIC-02 interfaces on their high end versions. Note that these
aren't cheap, and tough to find surplus.

> Does there exist a reasonable hack?
> Can this be done or is this a pipe dream of mine?

	It a pipe dream. You'll find it actually cheaper to sell your drive
to some poor sole with a PC clone and buy a SCSI drive instead. :-( Your
2060E is salable and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $250, a used
2060S is worth about the same. One of the newer 2150S drives should probably
cost less than twice that.

> Thanks in advance...
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