Bob Larson <BLARSON%ECLD@USC-ECL> (01/17/85)
Does anyone have any experience with the Hazelwood Helix Uniquad Single board computer? How easy is it to hook a hard disk to its "SCSI (SASI) bus interface that allows the connection of a large range of Winchester disk drives"? Do you have any information on the company? I am also interested in other os9/68000 or os9 Level 2 system in the under $2000 price range. A hard disk should be an expansion possibility. Please reply directly or to info-micro (net.micro). I don't think net.micro.6809 or net.micro.68000 get gated to info-micro anymore. Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Ecl.Arpa Uucp: Ucbvax!Blarson@Usc-Ecl (or use other uucp/arpanet gateway)
cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (01/18/85)
Hooking up an SCSI disk is fairly easy. First, get a hard disk. The
$159 5Mbyte one from Priority-1 comes to mind. Then get a SCSI -> Drive
adapter. In this case the Xebec SASI -> ST506 model could be used.
Then connect a cable between your SCSI port and the Xebec controller.
Power up the drive and computer and voila! hard disk. We assume that
os9 has the drivers installed. And for you jargon nuts the SASI and
SCSI interfaces are equivalent, the first the Shugart Assoc Systems Interface
became the Small Computer Systems Interface. The SCSI+ that Ampro has on
their boards is an unrecognized extension (although downwardly compatible).
--Chuck
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