Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!asd From: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple II and IBM Hard drives Keywords: Couln't be that hard Message-ID: <1368@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 17 Feb 89 00:51:33 GMT References: <34040@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9595@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <2132@netmbx.UUCP> <4293@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 34 In article <4293@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes: >In article <2132@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes: >>>>Why doesn't some developer make some controller that can hook up an >>>>Apple (+/e/c) to an IBM hardrive? Even if the controller costs a fortune, >>>>at least the wealth of drive choices would justify it. >Someone does - Adaptec Makes a board called the ACB-4000 (and ACB-4070 >for RLL drives). The connects between your 50-pin SCSI ribbon cable and >two ST-412/506 drives. These can be found for $70-$100, depending on where >you shop. Add a SCSI card for $130 and you've got an ST506 setup for $200. What's the hard drive size limit or is there any? Only two drives? How's that supposed to work? Address of this company? >[you'd be on your own for software, unless Apple provides a formatter for >'generic' SCSI disks. You also need to be aware of which revision of >Adaptec board firmware you get.] A SCSI low-level formatter can be found on in the APPLE2-L archives I do believe. >>the thing you want is called megacore and i use it (with st506 hard disks). >>you can have prodos,ucsd,cp/m and dos 3.3 on it bootable in any combination. >>costs $500 or so. mail me if you need an address, havnt got it at hand. I located an add for this. The card can doesn't cost that much I think but can only handle 64Meg or so. >Also, I believe there was an outfit called Perlin electronics which sold >Apple II ST interfaces for a time. Somebody said this wasn't a good place to get such a thing. kareth.