Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!bbn!gatech!udel!udccvax1!gdtltr From: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Atari hookup to IBM hard drives Message-ID: <803@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 14 Mar 88 14:39:39 GMT References: <1988Mar3.231347.12961@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1394@alliant.Alliant.COM> <473@nunki.usc.edu> Reply-To: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 29 In article <473@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes: >In article <1394@alliant.Alliant.COM> lackey@alliant.UUCP (Stan Lackey) writes: >> >>On a different subject: I have been noticing hard disk drives available for >>IBM PC's in mail-order catalogs for as little as $199 for 10MB. It seems an >>interesting thing to do might be to adapt one of those to the atari. I >>don't have the slightest idea how to do it, but am an experienced hardware >>designer, and have done a lot of 6502 assem lang as well. Anybody want to >>team up? I live in eastern Mass, if that matters. > > I do believe ICD's MIO interface package is supposed to let you >hook up "standard SCSI controller" hard disks to the 8-bit Atari. I >agree, it would be terrific if it works, because then it's a (relatively) >cheap source of mass storage. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about >SCSI-compatability, except that it's claimed. Any information you get >would be appreciated by a *lot* of us here, I believe. > True. I own the ICD MIO (1 Meg), and it does support SCSI hard ,drive controllers. However, this is not the IBM standard controller. You can use a normal IBM type drive, but you must have a special SCSI controller card, which is more expensive (though one controller can usually run 2 drives). Keep in mind that you will also need a case, power supply, special cables, and a fan. ICD offers complete SCSI setups for anyone who is interested. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration Atari Enthusiast Extreme