Re: Sider Info Wanted

["Brad Weelborg" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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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

question on this..once you convert the sider from sasi to scsi... and
assuming you have a ramfast
and the ramfast set not to provide term power...

could you still use the Sider Utilities on the formerly sasi hd?

this would be useful in putting in a bigger hd in a couple sider cases i
have/ w ramfast..in that i could
use the sider dos 3.3 utils for putting prodos and dos 3.3 on a scsi drive

i assume that i prob would have to leave the sider in sasi format w/ the
ramfast for the sider utils to be used with it thou..

just a thought what do you all think?

brad
sysop@lost-gonzo.com
www.lost-gonzo.com
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