Re: Apple HD's?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <tastytoast-0411961757390001@cust21.max27.los-angeles.ca.ms.uu.net>,
Adam Rumack <tastytoast@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I was wondering...  What type of hard drives do Apple II's use?  I know
>you can get controllers for SCSI, but what kind of drive do they use
>without any adaptors.

   Define 'adaptors.' Various SCSI drives have different pinouts on
the outside from 25-pin D-shell connector to 50-pin centronics to 50
pin rectangular. You can find cables to go between the 25-pin D shell
of pretty much all A2 scsi boards and those ones.

   If you mean some kind of software adaptor, A2s are not Macs that
require a special software driver on them, so pretty much any drive
can be seen by the software and accessed.

   About the only drives that won't work offhand are a few Quantum
SCSI-II drives that require the SCSI host card (such as a RAMFAST) to
provide a SCSI ID for the controller card. Since the latest versions
of the RamFAST don't do that, they don't work.

   The comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) posting at
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html has more info on all of
this; it's strongly encouraged that you read it for more info on this
and lots more Apple II subjects. 

Nathan Mates

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