5 Nov
2010
5 Nov
'10
2:19 p.m.
On 5 Nov 2010 at 17:05, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Since I moved from PETs and C-64s and small DEC
machines first to
Amigas and Macs, then much later to PCs, I was very happy when
embedded SCSI drives displaced all the Adaptec and Emulex and Xebec
and Omti boards - much easier to set up and move from environment to
environment.
Years ago, I worked out an MFM-RLL-to-SCSI-to-ACSI adapter for the
Atari 520 ST. Worked pretty well, but the command set for the OMTI
was pretty sparse. I seem to recall that there was no IDENTIFY
command and that for a host to obtain the drive geometry (not
capacity, but CHS) it had to be read from the OMTI adapter's buffer
right after bootup.
I've got the documentation for the adapter somewhere.
--Chuck