Re: Mystery card

[sloopy malibu <sloopym@home.com>]

Bart,

	SASI isnt lost... it evolved into SCSI.... also old (pre '85) scsi
drives will USUALLY do sasi also especially shugart associates ;') drives...
i help hack a sasi interface to do scsi on the atari xl/xe series years
ago... and the differences between the two arnt many....

sloopy.
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Bart wrote:
> 
> I have 2 Sider cards.  One is suffering from massive bit-rot or other problems
> because when plugged into an Apple the machine fails to boot. But the other
> seems to work.  I do not have a Sider drive to test it on though.  There was
> some discussion a while back about a fellow who had done some EPROM burning
> for Sider cards to allow their use with SCSI drives but the chip was specific
> to only 1 particular drive, was a bit cranky and a general pain to use.  I
> will keep my Sider cards as examples of SASI with my other "Lost Technology"
> junk, but, I doubt I will ever use them.
> The do look kinda cool though ;)
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