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From: [e-mail] (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
Date: 7 Jan 1996 23:08:38 GMT
Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
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From article <4ckgd8$[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Maxwell Daymon):
...
> The low end would use the Zip drive as BOTH a floppy and hard drive
> replacement. High end models would also include a large hard drive.
> Replace the 23-pin floppy drive port with a 25-pin SCSI (which of course
                          ^^
> would be where you plug in the CD-ROM drive!) ;-)

Arrgh!  NO NO NO!

50 pin is SCSI - 25 pin is Apple crap.  Why the A2091 was shipped with a
25 pin I do not know.  The first thing you do anyway is to buy a 25-50 pin
cable.  I ended up making a new 50 conductor cable that goes controller
(with its soldered-in terminators) to card mounted HD, to 2nd HD in 5 1/4"
bay, to rear panel where there is a 50 pin Amphenol 57 Series (not
"Centronics" as is it is often called) that either has a terminator
block or a cable to some other device.  Yeah, I know that the traces to
the 25 pin back panel are still there, but I haven't had any trouble,
else I would have wielded the scalpel on them.


Allan Duncan            Photonics & Reference Standards Section
([phone]        Telstra (formerly Telecom) Research Labs
Fax    [phone]        Box 249 Rosebank MDC, Clayton, Victoria, 3169
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