tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) (09/02/89)
Well, Western Digital is about to start shipping IBM-manufactured 3.5" disk drives with a capacity of more than 300 MB. This sounds like a nice disk drive. My question is, "Can I use my regular SCSI interface to talk to this drive, given that the drive is SCSI II?" Second SCSI question: These days, just about all SCSI devices seem to have built in SCSI controllers. This means that I can only put 7 or 8 devices on my SCSI bus. Are there any devices out there that can make SCSI devices with built-in controllers look like slave devices? In other words, I'd like to put several SCSI hard disks, each with their own controller, onto this device, and then hook this device onto my bus as lun1. Would the other possibility be to get a SCSI controller that talks to ESDI drives? Who makes one of these? Tim
tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale) (09/09/89)
In article <11792@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes: > >Well, Western Digital is about to start shipping IBM-manufactured 3.5" >disk drives with a capacity of more than 300 MB. This sounds like a >nice disk drive. >My question is, "Can I use my regular SCSI interface to talk to this >drive, given that the drive is SCSI II?" Yes. Their support of SCSI II is limited to some of the commands and features of that spec, not the extended addressing or speed. There do appear to be a couple of quirks in the drive such as mode select pages being a bit different than other manufacturers. Can't help you with the other query, though. -- Blue skies, | ...sun!aeras!tneale | | in flight: N2103Q | The hurrieder I go Tom Neale | in freefall: D8049 | the behinder I get. | via the ether: WA1YUB |