alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington) (04/11/89)
I've got an Adaptec RLL controller (IBM) and 2 ST238 drives that I'd like to hook up to my Amiga 500. Can someone tell me what expansion box I could buy (or make) that would let me do this? Thanks in advance. +-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | -Al Harrington //// | Instant Guru BBS | | ________ //// | (916) 488-9278 | | |__/\__| \\\\ //// | 120 Megs - All Amiga! | | \\\X/// | Over 1000 files online | | alh@hprmo.HP.COM \XXX/ | Baud: 1200/2400 Hours: 24 | | ..{hplabs,hp-sde}!hprmo!alh | PCPursuit: CASAC 1200/2400 | +-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | My comments in no way reflect the views or opinions of Hewlett-Packard | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green) (04/17/89)
in article <13240017@hprmokg.HP.COM>, alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington) says: > I've got an Adaptec RLL controller (IBM) and 2 ST238 drives that I'd like > to hook up to my Amiga 500. > > Can someone tell me what expansion box I could buy (or make) that would let > me do this? Step one: Throw away the IBM RLL controller. There's kludges like the "Wedge" that'll let you do it, but you don't want that. Step two: Buy a C Ltd. SCSI controller and an Adaptec 4070 SCSI-to-RLL adaptor. Total cost: around $300. Step three: put your drives in some sort of case, figure out what kind of power & cables they need, hook everything up, and run'er. Cost depends on what you have in your electronics junk box. e.g. if you have a surplus IBM power supply, or a couple of old computer cases with spaces for half-height drives, or whatever. If you buy a case, with a power supply, it'll probably run you about $80. I've gotten around 300k/second diskperf out of a similiar setup (using a Miniscribe 40ms drive -- dunno what your Seagrates will do). If you want real scream, get a high-performance SCSI controller and a high performance SCSI disk drive. But if you can't afford that, well, it's better than nothing.... -- | // Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 | | // ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg (318)989-9849 | | \X/ Amiga. The homestation for the blessed of us. |