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From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SCSI harddisk connection, how?
Message-ID: <300@hobbit.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 25 Jul 88 13:44:53 GMT
References: <1179@dutesta.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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From article <1179@dutesta.UUCP>, by niels@dutesta.UUCP (Arjen Baart):
> 
> Anne Steegstra writes:
> 
>>Has anyone experience connecting a SCSI harddisk to the atari?
>>Does it need a lot of extra hardware. Where can I find schematics?
> 
> Since I'm not too satisfied with Atari's 20MB harddisk (small, slow and
> pretty expensive), I'm considering to connect a 30 or 40 MB harddisk
> to my 520 ST+ (either SCSI or ST506). My questions are similar:

In the German magazine C'T a simple circuitboard (<= $25 cost, incl. IC's)
was shown which allowed using any ST506 disk with an OMTI5520 controller for
XT's. Driver software was published too.
Disadvantage: no booting from the harddisk.
This must be one of the cheapest ways of adding a harddisk to your ST.
I can give more specific info if someone is interested. Warning: the article
is in German. (They did the same thing for the Amiga too).

-- 
Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands
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