Date   : Thu, 21 May 1992 11:13:20 BST
From   : Richard York <yorkr@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb hard discs and host adaptor cards.

the cost is about 35 pounds fully built. This is a guestimate based on
catalogue prices and pcb costs, but should be fairly right.
        This board connects direct to the 1 MHz bus, and the 'other side' of
the board is a SCSI bus, which can, in principal connect to any SCSI device.
So far me and a friend have connected several different scsi devices and all
have worked first time. Basically ANY scsci drive will work 100%, and I can't
see anyone wanted to connect anything else?
        The ADFS fully supports the drives, providing they are formatted,
which is done with several, alternative formatting programs, which are written
in basic and actually do very little except issue the scsi format command,
and then write onto the disc the free space map and root directory.

The mailing list sounds very interesting, particularly if it is old acorns
only since then it isnt swamped by arc owners. I presume when it is fully up
and running you will post on comp.sys.acorn?

Will you put Dave Gilbert (gilbertd@...) on the list as well
please.

       Hope this helps,
                       Richard.



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