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From: sid@grub.UUCP (Sid Stuart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Exabyte on a Mac
Message-ID: <122@grub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 89 18:35:43 GMT
Reply-To: sid@grub.UUCP (Sid Stuart)
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Organization: Sebastion Systems Management
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I can get a good deal on a 700 meg esdi hitachi disk and an Exabyte tape
drive from a friend of mine. I would like to put these on a Mac II, but
don't know if I can.

I have been told that the Apple SCSI implementation is different from the
ANSI SCSI definition. Does anyone know what the difference is? I have also
been told that Western Digital and Adaptec have Mac-SCSI to ESDI adapters, but
cannot find anyone that knows the correct part numbers. Does anyone know the
magic part number? Integrating the Exabyte looks a little harder because one
probably needs a driver, due to the differences between the Mac tape drive
and the Exabyte. Has anyone ever gotten one of these working on
a Macintosh?


Thanks for the help,

sid
linus!grub!sid