dcw@ecsvax.UUCP (Douglas C. Wilson) (10/29/87)
We have a 2 year old Iomega Bernoulli Box 10+10 running off a SCSI host adapter on our microvax. We would like to move the drive to a Mac SE. The word from tech support at Iomega was that this particular drive would not run with the Mac. They could not give me the reason. We have built a custom interface to a Z80 micro and written drivers for this drive. It seems to be a vanilla SCSI adapter. Of course the drive would not be compatible with the standard Mac drivers and formatters. Does Iomega provide their own drivers for their Mac compatible Boxes? Is there any *hardware* incompatibility between the Mac SCSI and a Bernoulli box? We do not think that there whould be any hardware problems from what we have read. We have the expertise in house to write our own driver for this combination but we do not want to have to do any serious hardware mods on our mac or drive. Any comments would be appreciated. Douglas C. Wilson dcw@ecsvax dcw@rwlvax.chem.unc.edu Dept. of Chemistry University of NC Chapel Hill, NC 27514 -- Douglas C. Wilson dcw@ecsvax Dept. of Chemistry University of NC Chapel Hill, NC 27514
lee@hhb.UUCP (lee daniels) (11/02/87)
in article <4107@ecsvax.UUCP>, dcw@ecsvax.UUCP (Douglas C. Wilson) says: > We have a 2 year old Iomega Bernoulli Box 10+10 running off a SCSI host > adapter on our microvax. We would like to move the drive to a Mac SE. > The word from tech support at Iomega was that this particular drive would > not run with the Mac. They could not give me the reason. They told me the same thing so I tried it and it works. > Is there any *hardware* incompatibility between the Mac SCSI and a Bernoulli > box? No. > We do not think that there whould be any hardware problems from what we > have read. We have the expertise in house to write our own driver for this > combination but we do not want to have to do any serious hardware mods on > our mac or drive. No modifications are necessary. Doug, I would like to make an offer: I have written a driver that gets the IOmega disk up and running. At this point, my driver only supports one unit, no cartidge changing, and little error handling. It does work though and is a good starting place to come up with a good clean driver. If you want it, I will send it to you if you will send me back your driver when you finish it. It is currently written in MPW assembly language. This is my first posting out here on the net, so I hope you get this. My mail address is: Lee Daniels HHB Systems 1000 Wyckoff Avenue Mahwah, N.J. 07430