Re: Need help hooking up old SCSI drives

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <30fs6aF2u6qeoU2@uni-berlin.de>,
 "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:

> > Second, the Quantum Atlas II 3.5 series drive doesn't look like a normal
> > SCSI drive that a GS could handle.  
> 
> Of course it can, unless it is the HVD version, recognizable by a D suffix on 
> the model number.
> 
> > It's talking about differential on the drive and while I've never dealt 
> > with that, I have a friend who has.
> 
> > You either have to have a SCSI card that can handle differential drives
> > or you need an adapter to go to normal SCSI.  
> 
> Only for High Voltage Differential SCSI drives.
> That (common ATLAS II) label is not proof that it is such a drive,
> it merely indicates that there is such a version also available.
> 
> > I do not know what the difference is off the top of my head.  
> > You could maybe google the info.

I thought that Differential drives required a specific controller or an 
adapter.  Never saw anything that specified otherwise.

Greg B.

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