Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu!jesup From: jesup@pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap hard drives Message-ID: <594@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 30 Mar 88 18:37:59 GMT References: <7799@cisunx.UUCP> <8134@cisunx.UUCP> <8208@cisunx.UUCP> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 31 In article <8208@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >Well, I called Microbotics, and I was informed that the SCSI interface >lets the Amiga use any SCSI drives. I guess the idea is to use >Macintosh SCSI drives. I asked about buying a 'generic' bare SCSI drive >from one of the many Computer Shopper advertisers, and he said that >would work too. Note: the StarDrive is an expansion module for the StarBoard, not a standalone board. If you already have a StarBoard, you can use the StarDrive. (Note also that you can only use one of the StarDrive or the MFM (multi-function-module, with 68881) on a single starboard. You can use 2 Starboards, however. A Starboard has up to 2 Meg ram + a clock. > Will >this SCSI interface really talk to a bare SCSI drive? There doesn't >have to be anything in between? Yes, it will. At most you might have to fabricate a 25-pin Mac SCSI to 50-Pin real SCSI connecter (simple). Make sure you have a PS for the drive! A case is nice too. A 'mac-scsi' drive is a bare scsi drive, a PS & case, and a 50-pin centronics to 50-pin ADC cable, with the reset pin cut (Note: this makes real mac-style drives hard to use sometimes: check for a cut line inside if you have problems) // Randell Jesup Lunge Software Development // Dedicated Amiga Programmer 13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180 \\// beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (518) 272-2942 \/ (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup) BIX: rjesup (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)