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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Help! Homebrew SCSI Hard Drive on IIGS
Message-ID: <13151@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:06:30 GMT
References: <36@loop.UUCP> <Feb.12.18.27.00.1990.6532@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <Feb.12.18.27.00.1990.6532@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes:
>Despite many attempts, I have never been able to get  an Adaptec or
>other "adapted" SCSI drives to work on the IIGS.   I had no problem
>with true imbedded SCSI drives.   I was unable to interface a Mirror
>20x or a Nova 30.   Both use some kind of external SCSI adapter.  No
>one on the net was too helpful as to why...    I just spent lots of
>time and buckage finding it out.   

Yes, I've noticed this also.  I haven't dug into the problem and found out the
cause (nor a solution) but perhaps it is due to the SCSI card.  Can DTS shed 
any light on this?  Like so:

	Take a dataframe 30 meg; this uses an adaptec board. Works fine on 
	the mac; using DM Mac I can format, interleave, etc.  (DM Mac is a 
	generic scsi HD formatter)

	Take the same dataframe, attach it to the Apple SCSI card.  _Nothing_
	will recognize it as being a SCSI device.  It just sits there, a
	brick on a cord.

Sounds like a SCSI Card problem to me....

>Seymour

--Chan
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