26 Apr
2007
26 Apr
'07
5:31 a.m.
On 4/26/07, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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.
Hmm, I think that's what's in my Amiga A590
enclosure. It's certainly not
SCSI, but I'm sure the connector's not proper IDE either.
The A590 (and A2091 ZorroII card) support SCSI on the 50-pin
connector, and XT IDE (only) on the 40 pin connector. The 40-pin
connector is unpopulated on the A2091, but it's the same controller
chip on both, and has the same features in both.
I've used it with a WD 40 MB XT IDE drive from a Commodore x86 PC. It works.
And they were
bl**dy unreliable too! :-(
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.
[1] I don't buy new stuff, not for PCs - not when
the price drops so much for
"previous generation". 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.
-ethan
26 Apr
26 Apr
6:45 a.m.
On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Nah...73GB and 141GB SCA SCSI drives are all over eBay pretty much
all the time.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
[1] I
don't buy new stuff, not for PCs - not when the price drops
so much for
"previous generation". 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. 
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.
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