3 Jun
1998
3 Jun
'98
6:50 p.m.
On 4 Jun 98 at 20:33, Tony Duell wrote:
This is a problem that I've been thinking about rather a lot - not for
Ataris, but for old workstations (PERQ, Xerox, etc) that have an ST506
controller built in to the I/O board.
I've been thinking of designing an interface that'll link a SCSI or IDE
drive to an ST506 controller. The problem is I'd have to know quite a bit
about the low-level format of the drive so that I could simulate it on
the interface. And that data is not easy to come by.
But I am worried that ST506 drives are becoming less common every year,
and there's no easy way to repair them.
-tony
IIRC this is almost what the card in the Atari SH205 did . It changed the MFM
to SCSI and then changed the SCSI to ATASCI . I don't have one but I imagine it
is well documented in Atari circles
BTW I have an old SpinRite with a doc that warns about the danger of RLL
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Okay gang. I just can't take it, I gotta help
this guy become an atarian. :)
Okay, this is what; you need. You need an ATSCI to SCSI converter
OK, but what to do with the system that takes an ST-506 interface drive? I just