jjk@abvax.UUCP (John J. Kolber) (11/23/87)
Dear periph.world; Does any one know if there are any 5 1/4 inch floppy drives that have a SCSI interface ? I know there are adapters available, but I am looking for a cleaner ( cheaper ) solution. Thanks in Advance: John J. Kolber ( 216 ) 449 - 6700 X5201
ralphw@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre) (11/25/87)
In article <119@abvax.UUCP> jjk@abvax.UUCP (John J. Kolber) writes: >Dear periph.world; > >Does any one know if there are any 5 1/4 inch floppy drives that >have a SCSI interface ? I believe Dayna System make one; it's designed for the Macintosh II. I can use most of the common IBM-type drives and formats. Not as cheap as a bare drive, and I don't know what is done to make it work with Mac SCSI, if anything. Good luck. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA
steckel@alliant.UUCP (12/05/87)
Several manufacturers make SA450 (?I think that's the number) to SCSI cards. I.E., buy your floppy and a bridge controller, as they're called, and you have a SCSI floppy. Since most floppy drives cost ~= $100 and a SCSI controller costs about the same, most of the controllers will actually run two floppies, and some of them will run a ST412/ST506 hard disk as well. Some even run QIC-02 tapes. I haven't used a floppy controller, but am reasonably happy with a Scientific Micro Systems OMTI 3527 RLL hard disk control. SMS makes an omnibus (tape, disk, & floppy) card for $250 or so. Other companies NCR (in Wichita), Adaptec (though their Multibus I host adapter has at least 1 fatal (for me) bug), & maybe Western Digital. Hope this is useful. Geoff Steckel (steckel@alliant.COM)