30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
7:06 p.m.
On Thursday 30 June 2005 13:03, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lyle Bickley wrote:
I can't speak for the Apple II SASI - but I do know Alpha Micro's SASI
controller will work well with many older SCSI drives (but not ALL). [IIRC,
I had to jumper parity "off" in the drive.]
I suspect that many of the early SCSI drives made during the transition from
SASI to SCSI-1 will work O.K. with various SASI controllers. Give it a try -
it certainly won't hurt anything (drive or controller) - the SASI/SCSI
hardware interfaces are reasonably compatible - it's the protocol that either
works for a given combo. or not.
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
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).
I have a SASI controller for an Apple II Sider hard drive, and have
found clues on the web that say older SCSI drives like the Seagate ST-225N
should work with it. Does that sound reasonable? What other make/model
SCSI drives would be likely to work?