30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
12:14 p.m.
On Thursday 30 June 2005 09:58, Nico de Jong wrote:
From: "Lyle Bickley" <lbickley at
bickleywest.com>
I don't think I tried an Adaptec 1542, but I suspect it's way too
"smart" to
work with SASI drives.
It's been a while since I used the controller, but IIRC it was an old ISA
controller card like a WD7000 or Seagate ST-01/ST-02. Any early SCSI-1
controller should do - that was before SCSI became "smart" - and the
messaging between the controller and the device (HDD) was minimal. A SASI
device on such a controller will respond "well enough" to "look like"
SCSI-1.
As I said before - DO NOT mix a SASI device with a SCSI device on the same
controller - or strange things can happen (don't ask).
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
I have a couple of older Alpha Micro systems that
use SASI drives. I've
found
that early SCSI controllers (typically ISA) will
work fine with SASI
drives
as long as you don't mix SASI with SCSI
drives on the same controller.
Would that include adapters like Adaptec 1542?