John Van Winkle wrote:
Has anyone ever tried using a SCSI drive on one of these controllers?
Are the disks necessary to set up the drive?
Hi John, it has been many years since I used my Xebec Apple SASI card.
If memory surves me correctly I first used it with a SASI to MFM controller
board. I had it hooked up to a 10MB IBM (ST506) drive. A company called
Shreve systems sold the converter. Next i put a SCSI to MFM board on the
same drive (also from shreve). I still have both convereter boards.
Later on I bought a ROM upgrade for the card from a company called STS
systems? That allowed the card to work with a ST225 60MB SCSI drive I
bought. I recall it supported ProDOS and CP/M perhaps Dos 3.3 as well. I
stll have the drive but it doesn't always spin up.
I also recall I think I needed to supply the drive geometry and they setup
the ROM for me.
At onetime I think I also took a stab a disassembling the ROM to see how it
all worked ..
ah .. the good old days
Glenn