Date   : Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:24:20 +0000
From   : bbcmicro@... (Ian Stocks)
Subject: Harddisc fakery using a microcontroller

On 29/11/2010 4:09 pm, paul aslin wrote:
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>  > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:48:41 +0000
>  > From: jim@...
>  > To: bbc-micro@...
>  > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Harddisc fakery using a microcontroller
>  >
>  > I repaired a lot of PC's in the ST506 era and i can't ever remember a
>  > disc interface built into a motherboard, it was always on a ISA card.
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> Yes but the entire Archimedes first generation had either ST506, SCSI or
> nothing on the motherboard. Its not untill the A5000 that IDE was standard.

Did anything have SCSI on-board?, ST506 was on-board for A4xx series, 
but the A540, which had SCSI as standard, was still a podule.

Ian.