Date   : Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:39:30 +0100 (BST)
From   : "Dr. David Gilbert" <gilbertd@...>
Subject: Re: discs 

On 26 Jul 2000, Mick Champion wrote:

> An on-going search of mine is to do with hard drives. I have 2 connected to my
> Beeb model B at the the moment, but they both have faults. I am looking to 
> replace them. Can anybody tell me if they know of any of these obsolete 'ST' 
> style drives up for grabs ? Failing that, was there ever a SCSI version of the
> ADAPTEC board made ? To those who may not be able to identify a ST drive but 
> may unknowingly have one, it has 2 edge connectors. one is 20 way, and the 
> other 34.  

All the BBC hard drive kits I've heard of consisted of two cards; one
which connected to the 1 MHz bus and produced something close to SASI,
and another board which went from that to ST506 drives.
I >think< it is possible to put moderate size SCSI discs directly on that
SASI bus.

Dave

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