Date   : Sun, 12 Jan 1997 20:24:48 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Martin Ebourne <martin@...>
Subject: Re: Hard disc interfacing

On Sat 11 Jan, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In message <RrWH+GAlb91yEwo6@...>, I
> <mike@...> wrote:
> 
> >Software consists of talking to the host adapter, which addresses the
> >Adaptec board, which then converts SCSI commands into C-H-S (cylinder,
> >head, sector) requests to the hard disc.
> 
> Actually, carrying this to its logical conclusion, it should in theory
> be possible to connect a SCSI hard disc directly to the Acorn host
> adaptor, but I never had the chance to try it. Did anyone else ?

I thought that they used SASI, a sort of early version of SCSI. As such
I don't think they are actually compatible.

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Martin Ebourne
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