dbucciar@nyx.UUCP (Dominick J. Bucciarelli ) (07/09/90)
Is anyone using a Macintosh external SCSI drive with their Amiga? I have a Supra SCSI controller/RAM expansion for my A500 that I'm just using as a RAM expansion right now. I'm starting to look for an external drive/chassis/ power supply, and there's lot's of 'em out for the Mac. I was wondering if these would be a problem to get to work with the Supra controller. I guess my real question is "is the Supra controller a generic SCSI controller?" and, "will an external drive system designed to be used with a Mac work with the Supra controller?" If it's just a matter of hacking the cable connections, that's no problem. I'm concerned that there's some strangeness with the Mac SCSI port that the 3rd party manufacturers have had to deal with and which make their drives incom- patible with a "standard" SCSI controller like the Supra. I'd appreciate any advice or horror stories :)
flutter@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Lloyd Eldred) (07/10/90)
In article <1450@nyx.UUCP>, dbucciar@nyx.UUCP (Dominick J. Bucciarelli ) writes... >Is anyone using a Macintosh external SCSI drive with their Amiga? I have an Amiga 1000 with a StarBoard II with the StarDrive SCSI module. I bought my hard drive from a Mac vendor called Tulin in San Jose Ca. Basically, I got a Seagate ST277N-1(65 meg), a 65W two drive case (for future expansion), and a normal Mac SCSI cable. They can be reached at (408) 432-9025. The drive has worked flawlessly. I had a little problem with installing the drive while simultaneously upgrading to AmigaDos 1.3. It took about three days of fiddling and a couple of other people's mountlists to finally get things working properly. So, Hard drives intended for the Mac can work very nicely. My recommendation is to locate some configurations that others have used with the Supra controller and match one that makes sense to you. These things are not precise by any means. Every Amiga HD installation that I have been involved in (about 5) has had their own particular problems and have taken a few days to get up to speed. Don't get overly frustrated. %% Lloyd Eldred -- The Coconut Telegraph BBS (703) 953-1214 Your source for Amiga, Mac, and ST Soon to have 180 meg.
mrr@mrsoft.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) (07/10/90)
>In article <1450@nyx.UUCP> dbucciar@nyx.UUCP (Dominick J. Bucciarelli ) writes: >Is anyone using a Macintosh external SCSI drive with their Amiga? This doesn't answer your question fully (I don't have a Supra controller), but I bought a Quantum 105 which was packaged for a Mac and it works beautifully with my A2091 controller. The DB25-SCSI cable which came with the drive worked perfectly, without modification. -- ################################################################# # Mark R. Rinfret, MRSoft Home: 401-846-7639 # # mrr@mrsoft, galaxia!mrsoft!mrr Work: 401-849-9930 x301 # #################################################################