26 Apr
2007
26 Apr
'07
6:50 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Ok... so it doesn't need a SCSI drive that's happy with being low level
formatted to something other than a 512 byte sector size, for instance? I
don't think many drives - particularly newer ones - can handle that...
I think many of them are still in service which is why they haven't turned up
used - plus there's more paranoia these days about data security, so I wonder
if more are going to the shredders without being recycled as working units.
That worries
me about the Amiga one. It does have a SCSI connector
within the
A590 I think, but I'm not sure how picky it is about what drives it'll
work with.
Not very picky. You'll find that with the Kickstart version in your
machine, you are limited to 4GB or less for drive size, but other than
that, as long the drive answers the packet for drive capacity (ACB4000
MFM bridge wouldn't answer, for example, but every embedded SCSI drive
I know of will), the AmigaDOS drivers will be happy. Unfortunately
SCSI drives of 36GB and up don't seem to
be readily available.
I got a few in 2003, cheap, but I'm not seeing server drives as
abundantly as I used to. The ones behind me are loaded with "SAS"
(Serial-attached-SCSI, AFAIK), so perhaps the days of SCA-connector
UltraWIDE SCSI drives are waning at last.