Re: Xebec SCSI card?

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Patrick Schaefer wrote:

> Wayne Stewart wrote:
> > 
> >The Sider drives were MFM so I would have doubts about it working with
> >a SCSI drive but I could easily be wrong on that.
> 
> There were SASI to MFM converters, made by Adaptec, Cipher and other
> manufacturers. Perhaps the Sider uses one of these. MFM has a completely
> different cabling scheme that would not fit the 50 pin connector. 
> 
> Or ... my card is not a Sider interface? Nevertheless, the connector
> pinout looks like SCSI (or SASI, it is only a subset of
> SCSI-1/X3.131-1986).
> 
Early Sider drives were SASI. Later they were SCSI. Whether the 
actual drive mechanism was MFM and a converter was used I cannot
say. But, they were definitely SASI, then SCSI.

FYI, the RamFAST card supposedly can handle the SASI Sider drives.

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz