Re: My harddisk is back!

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@bellsouth.net>]

On 6/14/08 6:20 AM, in article
0042b9ae-0238-46b2-839a-794f90bf11a1@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "limtc"
<thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot everything about how RamFAST and SCSI works. How shall you
> connect 2 SCSI harddisks? Daisy chain them? Will they work?
> 
> On 6锟斤拷14锟斤拷, 锟斤拷锟斤拷2时44锟斤拷, golfrock <rtsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes.  There are plenty of the old SCSI drives on eBay.  Although not
>> as many as there was a few years ago.  Hook both up with different
>> ID#s and boot with a floppy and then copy the old one to the new one.
>> 
>> It is amazing to have those old drives work.  I have a Hyperdrive FX20
>> that doesn't like to be moved at all.  If I move it, it usually takes
>> 2 or 3 power cycles to get it to boot.  I don't move it much.
>> 
>> Robert
> 

SCSI, you daisy-chain them with termination on the end, or if you have two
connectors on the scsi card, then you can have a 2nd terminated branch.

I have SCSI on my TI-99, it has two different connectors (internal header
and "Apple" style). I picked up 3 Fuji 250mb hard drives, only use one so I
have 2 spares (if you'd like one, let me know) - it is attached to the
internal header. Then a Syquest 200mb removable drive on the other
connector.

Only problem I really have with them is the driver code on the eprom has
some bugs in it - occasional hangs is the usual issue. And I can always make
it hang by a Basic program I wrote to recursively descend into directories.
Even a disk manager that does the same thing hangs as well, and a friend of
mine has the same issue with another brand of SCSI card that has the same
eprom code...