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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: I want an AMIGA/SMD interface too.
Message-ID: <49846@sun.uucp>
Date: 18 Apr 88 15:44:26 GMT
References: <126@ssdis.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Keywords: AMIGA SMD HARDDISK

In article <126@ssdis.UUCP> gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff) writes:
>I would like to find out about possibilities of SMD interface to Amiga too.
>Don't have the other persons message who also asked about this on hand.  Not
>that I'm really optimistic about success, but I've got these 3 Fujitsu 474MB
>Eagle drives sitting here with 2.8 Meg/sec transfer rates.  ho hum.

There are several ways to interface SMD hard disks to the Amiga, some more
expensive than others, all of them more expensive than SCSI disks.

Preferred method : Buy an Ameristar ethernet board and a used Sun 2/170. Using
the Sun SMD interface connect to the disks, install UNIX, and then using
NFS mount the SMD drives on the Amiga. (poof) 

Secondary method : NCR makes a SCSI to SMD interface. Talks SCSI on 
one side and SMD on the other. Mount that in a box with a power supply
and connect it to a SCSI controller on the Amiga. You may need to write
a driver for this configuration.

Third method : Take the SMD drive to a swap meet and swap it for a SCSI
drive of similar capacity. :-)


--Chuck McManis
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