jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent) (04/10/91)
I would like to connect an external Macintosh hard drive to my Amiga for use with A-Max II. My setup is the following: Amiga 2500/20 3 megabytes of RAM A2090a hard drive controller 43 MB Rodime hard drive (ST-506) all Amiga 82 MB Seagate hard drive (SCSI) with a 30 MB A-Max partition that works fine La Cie 80 MB external Macintosh SCSI hard drive I've tried connecting the hard drive to the SCSI port on the A2090a, but the emulator changes the screen color and locks up when I attempt to boot from the external drive and simply doesn't recognize it at all if I boot from the A-Max partition or floppy. I'm using the dummy mountlist entry that simply specifies the driver as per their example. Does it need a unit number? Is the Macintosh connector simply incompatible with the A2090a connector? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darc Tangent jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (04/11/91)
In article <4776.28025509@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent) writes: >I would like to connect an external Macintosh hard drive to my Amiga for use >with A-Max II. My setup is the following: > >Amiga 2500/20 >3 megabytes of RAM >A2090a hard drive controller > 43 MB Rodime hard drive (ST-506) all Amiga > 82 MB Seagate hard drive (SCSI) with a 30 MB A-Max partition that > works fine >La Cie 80 MB external Macintosh SCSI hard drive > >I've tried connecting the hard drive to the SCSI port on the A2090a, but the >emulator changes the screen color and locks up when I attempt to boot from the >external drive and simply doesn't recognize it at all if I boot from the A-Max >partition or floppy. I'm using the dummy mountlist entry that simply specifies >the driver as per their example. Does it need a unit number? Is the Macintosh >connector simply incompatible with the A2090a connector? > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Darc Tangent >jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu Is La Cie hardwired as the last SCSI unit in the series? If not, then it would not work. Macs have certain priorities for the SCSI devices in that the last device must be configured as being the last in the chain, while the others are hardwired as 'not the last'. Look for DIP switches on the hard drive. David -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.