Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple SCSI not compatible with standard SCSI? Keywords: SCSI hard disk amiga Message-ID: <918@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 16 Dec 89 23:07:04 GMT Lines: 41 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1371@clinet.FI>, toweri@clinet.FI (Jukka Lindgren) writes: >Is anyone out there able to tell, how "standard" the "standard" >SCSI-drives are? Most modern SCSI drives support a common command set that allows them to be used interchangably. There are exceptions to this, and the only real way to tell is to either find someone who has tried a particular combo, or try it yourself. >In my work, I am seeing a lot of >300Mb SCSI-drives, and sometimes I >have wondered, if it would be possible to connect them to my Amiga. >I have GVP 42Mb drive with GVP controller. You have half the battle won, in that you have the GVP and the drives to try. I don't have a GVP host adapter, but have tried many drives on the ComSpec, 2090, 2090A, and HardFrame, with only one attempt being a failure (Maxtor LXT-100S on a HardFrame). > It has an external connector >(25 pins) and it draws its power from Amigas own power supply. Is the >external connctor ONLY for Amiga-SCSI-drives, or is it universal? >(More or less, at least...) There really isn't any such thing as an 'Amiga-SCSI-drive', unless you want to put that label on one of the 'packaged systems'. The 25 pin connector is Apple's idea of a SCSI interface connector (I sincerely wish the Amiga folks doing host adapters would supply a real 50 pin one instead). You will need a cable (get it from a Mac dealer, an external enclosure/pwr_supply/fan if you need to mount it externally. -larry -- " All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head." - Thomas Alva Edison - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+