kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (01/20/91)
There has been quite a bit of discussion about whether SCSI devices will work with the Spectre and ST world. I don't have a Spectre, so I can't specify for that machine, BUT the components DO work! I bought an ICD host adapter, and an ST296N mechanism, (with power supply), and had that running just fine on the ST...after a while, I decided I needed more storage on my Mac plus. I had two 20MB Mac harddrives. All I did was switch the SCSI mechanisms. I took the two 20MB mechnisms, and hooked them into the cable coming off the back of the ICD, and put the 296N on the cable on the inside of one of the 20MB cases. Boom! 40MB on the ST, and 85MB on the Mac. It worked. What I'm getting at is that the mechanisms SHOULD work interchangably, right? If the ST can 'see' the SCSI device, then is there any reason the Spectre won't? Seems like you'd just have to format a spectre-specific partition, and you're off and running... +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Ken Corey | | | kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu | "Look, I just can't work up the energy | | SysOp:Intersect BBS | to be concerned about apathy." | | 214/317-5722 | | +--Disclaimer: These opinions are mine. Hell, I can barely GIVE 'em away!---+
kawakami@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) (01/20/91)
In article <1991Jan19.161057.44274@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: > What I'm getting at is that the mechanisms SHOULD work interchangably, right? > If the ST can 'see' the SCSI device, then is there any reason the Spectre >won't? Seems like you'd just have to format a spectre-specific partition, and >you're off and running... > > >+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ >| Ken Corey | | >| kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu | "Look, I just can't work up the energy | >| SysOp:Intersect BBS | to be concerned about apathy." | >| 214/317-5722 | | >+--Disclaimer: These opinions are mine. Hell, I can barely GIVE 'em away!---+ The SCSI-Spectre incompatibility problem probably has more to do with the way the Mac software deals with SCSI. Dave Small seems to have written software to convert the Mac disk file I/O into something that the Atari/GCR can do. Mac SCSI devices probably demand more specificity and might even bypass the OS software if it is inadequate. If the last thing is not the case, then there might be a software (non megatalk) method of using Mac SCSI devices on the ST. Of course, since Small was revving up with appletalk compatibility anyway, it probably made more sense to do SCSI in hardware anyway. John Kawakami kawakami@ocf.berkeley.edu ucbvax!ocf.berkeley.edu!kawakami Amateur crank! My Atari Macks!