Re: SCSI compatibility

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

bellaire@cs.tulane.edu (TV's St. Steve) writes:


>Recently I have been looking for another disk to hang off of the SCSI chain 
>that is attached to my Apple IIgs (regular SCSI card), and a question occured 
>that I know you can answer.  Can other types of SCSI devices be attaced to the 
>apple SCSI card?  Could I use the (cheaper) IBM SCSI disk, if I supplied power
>and wired the connector myself?  Could I use this disk next to my SPARC station
>as it has a 50-pin connector (not Centronics), and two ports for chaining.  Can
>the IBM's be chained?  Anybody care to offer pinouts for IBM disks?  For Sun 

Any HD should work fine with your card. The DSub-50 on the Sun disk is just
1:1, get another DSub-50, a little flat ribbon, a Centronics-50, and
there you go. Hooking any SCSI HD to your apple is no pain at all.
Be careful with more "exotic" devicesm, however ... you might have
to buy extra drivers for it or you might be out of luck, plainly.
(So, not all Tape drives work, not all MOs work, not all CD-ROMs and WORMs
work, not all scanners and printers work ... etc.)

Soenke
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