deang@tekig4.TEK.COM (Dean Gehnert) (09/13/88)
In article <3606@dad.UUCP> nelson@dad.UUCP (Paul Nelson) writes: >in article <7841@mtune.ATT.COM>, rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) says: >> >> Has anyone tried 'rolling their own' SCSI hard disks for an Apple ][? >I own a CMS 60M hard drive with a CMS scsi interface. After reading >alot about building your own scsi hard drive, .... > Paul Nelson > ...tikal!dad!nelson I have personally tried the 'roll yer own' SCSI hard drive system. And it works VERY well. I have the pinouts for putting it together, and are available to anyone that is willing to do some soldering and save about $200 under the price of a CMS 60meg!! I now have a SCSI system with a ST277N in an external case (with room for one more after 32meg prodos volume limit is changed) and a CMS SCSI card. If I get enough response, I will post for all to see and SAVE!! Dean W. Gehnert ...tektronix!tekig4!deang -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Gehnert, Tektronix Inc. phone:(503) 627-4428 tektronix!tekig4!deang | deang@tekig4.UUCP | deang@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
reid@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Reid Trimble) (09/14/88)
I'd love to see what you've done. Please post... Reid
jla@hogbbs.Fidonet.Org (Slartibartfast) (09/17/88)
-> I have personally tried the 'roll yer own' SCSI hard drive
-> system. And it
-> works VERY well. I have the pinouts for putting it
-> together, and are
-> available to anyone that is willing to do some soldering
-> and save about
-> $200 under the price of a CMS 60meg!! I now have a SCSI
-> system with a ST277N
-> in an external case (with room for one more after 32meg
Would you send me the pinouts, and how you did everything.
Thanks,
Jim Anderson
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or jla%hogbbs.fidonet.org@hcx.psu.edu |jockc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Jock Cooper) (09/17/88)
In article <3211@tekig4.TEK.COM> deang@tekig4.TEK.COM (Dean Gehnert) writes: >In article <3606@dad.UUCP> nelson@dad.UUCP (Paul Nelson) writes: >>in article <7841@mtune.ATT.COM>, rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) says: >>> >>> Has anyone tried 'rolling their own' SCSI hard disks for an Apple ][? >>I own a CMS 60M hard drive with a CMS scsi interface. After reading >>alot about building your own scsi hard drive, >.... > >I have personally tried the 'roll yer own' SCSI hard drive system. And it >works VERY well. I have the pinouts for putting it together, and are > ...etc... I too have put together my own SCSI hard disk. We had an unused Sysgen Hard disk (IBM type) sitting around the office, so I signed it out and took it home. It was an ST-506 type, so I bought an Adaptec 4070 SCSI to ST-506 RLL controller, and slapped in on top of the drive. Then built a cable (the description of which has been posted in this newsgroup recently) to connect the drive to a CMS card in my CPU. I have 60megs of storage, more whenever the 32meg limit is increased. The only problem I encountered was not being able to hard format the drive. I had to take it to a friends house (he had an Atari ST w/ SCSI HD) to do the job. The CMS software is hard coded to work with their drives only. ihnp4!killer!jockc