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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ST506
Message-ID: <360009@hplvli.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 16:34:56 GMT
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bobc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bob Calbridge) asks:

> Can anyone advise me if an ST506 is SCSI compatible?  I have one from my old CPM
> system that I'm thinking of including in my AT setup.

In a word: NO!  The ST506, however, set the standard which most AT machines use.
Western Digital, etc., controllers all use the ST506 standard.  SCSI and ESDI are
different standards.

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.HP.COM