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From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: ST506 for the mac?
Message-ID: <1526@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 08:43:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 08:43:48 1986
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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> A hardware question:
> 
> 	I have access to some ST506 36MB hard disks and I was wondering
> if there is any way to use these on my mac.  Does anyone know of any mac
> upgrades or if the new Mac SCSI port would help???
> 
ST506 (as I understand it) is a low level disk interface.  The easiest
way to use a disk with an ST506 interface is to purchase any one of a 
large number of disk controllers.  A typical disk controller presents
a SCSI interface for control from the host and uses the ST506 interface
to control the disk.  For the host end, the MacSCSI port would be just
the ticket.

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