27 Sep
2007
27 Sep
'07
7:29 p.m.
Hi,
....My hard disk was an OMTI SCSI-to-RLL converter
board with
another homebrew board piggybacked on to it to accommodate
signal differences between SCSI and ACSI....
The silly thing though, is, that the original Atari ST hard drive (the
SH-204) was just such an arrangement!
I forget the make of the SCSI-MFM controller card, but it was a pretty
common one back then (Future Domain?) and had a little interface converter
board attached to it's SCSI connector to allow it to speak ASCI....
The obvious question is WTF didn't they just put "normal" SCSI on the ST?
Never could figure that one out, but then again this is Atari we're talking
about...? :-)
TTFN - Pete.