Re: Sider Info Wanted

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Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:

>I just picked up a "Sider" external hard disk at a junk store. It has a
>db-37 cable attached, and what looks like a terminator. Is it SCSI? Any
>info on what kind of interface card it takes? About all I could find on
>the Sider is that it was for the Apple II. This one's a 9710H, has a
>Xebec hard disk inside. TIA for any info on this.

Hi Paul, that drive uses SASI, the predecessor to SCSI.  The only
IIGS SCSI card that's backward compatible with SASI is the
RAMFast card.  You'll need to set the RAMFast to NOT provide
termination power, otherwise stuff will fry.

If you have an SCSI mechanism you can swap with the SASI one,
then you should be able to easily turn the drive into a full SCSI
model.