portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (02/01/90)
>>>>> On 1 Feb 90 17:14:15 GMT, devin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Devin Hooker) said:
devin> Basically I have an Amiga 1000 and I can borrow an Apple 80SC
devin> hard drive from work. I was wondering if there is an inexpensive SCSI
devin> interface for the amiga that would support this drive. Thanks.
devin> -Devin
Basically any one of the slap-on-the-side SCSI interfaces for the
A1000 should do the job. I have a Microbotics StarboardII with the
Stardrive option. The arrangement has a Macintosh-style SCSI
connector and is advertised to work with SCSI drives for the
Macintosh. I have it connected to a Seagate SCSI drive, and it works
fine.
Supra also makes a SCSI interface, but I don't know much about it. I
wouldn't buy anything from CLtd unless I knew they were still in
business.
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"Why you? Because you're Electro-Cop, the best there is."devin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Devin Hooker) (02/02/90)
Basically I have an Amiga 1000 and I can borrow an Apple 80SC hard drive from work. I was wondering if there is an inexpensive SCSI interface for the amiga that would support this drive. Thanks. -Devin
doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) (02/03/90)
In article <PORTUESI.90Feb1131037@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >Supra also makes a SCSI interface, but I don't know much about it. I I have a Supra on my A1000, and it works fine. The formatting software is very flexible; from what I've seen (my own Wren III that was not in the predefined list) & heard you can talk to any SCSI drive, not just some predefined ones. It's not DMA, but I was just looking for something that people thought had a good chance of working with my old Pacific Cypress 2 Meg expansion, and the Supra got the most votes. Sure enough, the two work fine together. I don't even have PAL grounding mods. I'm a little unclear as to whether any of the still-extant A1000 SCSI interfaces support DMA anyway, but if they do, it seems clear that DMA gives better performance than non-DMA, Supra claims notwithstanding. On the other hand I've heard that DMA controllers can conflict with e.g. audio DMA. Perhaps that's just a question of correctly prioritizing tasks? Doug -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary