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From: HELLER@cs.umass.EDU (Stride 440 User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: RE: cartridge tape on ST
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Date: 28 Apr 88 12:10:00 GMT
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Bill:
	I'm planning on putting a 1/4" cartridge tape drive on my 1040ST.
(A 45/60 MB drive - uses DC300XL or DC600A carts.)  I have a psuedo-Supra
hard disk system:  A Supra DMA/SCSI adapter, an Adaptec 4000 SCSI/ST506
controller, a ST251 drive, and a not-yet-installed Adaptec 3530 SCSI/QIC-36
controller.  I don't have a tape drive mechanism yet.  I'll probably have
to write a driver for the SCSI/QIC-36 controller (I'll be doing it under
OS-9/68000 though).  Most ST Hard Disk subsystems use a SCSI-bus drive or
controller, with a ST-DMA to SCSI adapter.  Depending on this adapter, it
should be posible to interface any SCSI controller as a second (third, etc.)
SCSI device.  Upto 8 SCSI devices are posible (this is *address space* - you
may be limited by hardware limits (i.e. bus drivers, lack/limits on decoding).)
					Robert