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- From: hoffmann@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 08:14:42 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) wrote:
- : hoffmann@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) wrote:
-
- : >I was just wondering if the A3000 and the GVP IO extender external
- : >scsi ports are compatible?
-
- : Um, am I reading this right ... you want os connect two controllers onto
- : the same SCSI bus?
-
- No, what I want to do is to physically unplug the box that contains a
- tape and a HD from the A3000's db25 external scsi connector and just
- plug it into the external db25 connector of an A2000 that is equipped
- with a GVP 68030 accelleratero with scsi component.
-
-
- So the question was: are the a3000's db25 and the gvp's db25 pin
- compatible.
-
-
-
- : Theoretically, it's possible (I've done it), but the two controllers will
- : not normally cooperate so you end up with a lot of (non-repeatable)
- : checksum errors on any drive in the system.
-
- : Note, to make this work the A3000 has to have the SCSI ID of its host
- : adapter changed. Programs, like SCSIPrefs, exist to do this.
-
- : If you could make the 3000 and the GVP play nice together, it would work,
- : but I don't know of any software or drivers that would make this possible
- : (anyone with news on how to do this, with the 3000 native controller, I
- : am VERY interested).
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- --
- Arthur.
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