rsn@ndmath.UUCP (Ross Niebergall) (01/04/89)
I recently aquired a Seagate ST225 hardrive and an IBM 1501492 controller and I am interested in hooking this up to an Amiga 500. I think that the controller is a 10meg card and realize it is probably of no use to me, and I am vaguely familiar with the Wedge. If anyone has any suggestions of how to connect this drive, for example what type of controller to use or whether I can use the controller I have, what kind of power supply to use and whether or not there is a better system then the Wedge, I would appreciate your advice. Thank You, Ross Niebergall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame
jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee) (01/11/89)
In message <1268@ndmath.UUCP>, rsn@ndmath.UUCP (Ross Niebergall) says: >I recently aquired a Seagate ST225 hardrive and an IBM 1501492 controller >and I am interested in hooking this up to an Amiga 500. I think that Probably the cheapest way to do it is a) a C. Ltd. SCSI slap-on-the-side controller (around $180 or so mail-order), and b) an Adaptec 4000 SCSI-to-ST506 converter (around $80 from a number of vendors in Computer Shopper). You will also have to make up a custom ribbon cable to go from the C. Ltd.'s internal header connector to the Adaptec 4000's header connection. The C. Ltd. comes with a standard Macintosh cable (DB25 to Centronics-style), which I don't think works for the Adaptec. Another note: You'll need an external case with power supply. You can buy those out of Computer Shopper for around $70-$80, or you may be able to scavenge them locally (e.g., I have a dead Commodore SFD-1001 disk drive, and an old IBM Astec 130w supply that my brother's company threw away when they upgraded to a heftier supply). Good luck. It should be apparent, by now, that the disk drive mechanism is the least of costs when building a hard disk subsystem for the A-500 or A-1000. Note: You can use the standard Amiga 500 power supply with the SCSI controller (although it will not, of course, power the hard drive). But I recommend not using an external floppy drive if you do so, since the A500 power supply will only barely power a stock A-500 with two floppies. The internal floppy plus the external hard drive should suffice, eh? Of course, if you scrap the A-500 power supply and wire in a surplus IBM supply instead... anybody have a source for those funky square 6-pin DINs that Commodore uses? -- Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 {uunet!dalsqnt,killer}!usl!elg