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- From: tnewmanda@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: A600 HD SCSI or NOT The man speaks : -)?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.201049.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- References: <1992Jul23.080500.9293@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr> <sbiddle.05xa@aviate.welly.gen.nz> <33693@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Jul28.045340.856@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:10:49 GMT
-
- In article <1992Jul28.045340.856@actrix.gen.nz>, keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:
- > In article <33693@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
- >> sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle) writes:
- >> >In article <1992Jul23.080500.9293@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr>,
- >> > barre@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (Roland BARRE) writes:
- >> >>
- >> >>Does someone know the type of hard drive than I can put in an A600 (pc ide ?)
- >> >>
- >> >>and the price of this hard drive ( 20 mega or 50 mega)?
- >> >
- >> >Well this may come as a surprise to many, but the A600 has just been released
- >> >over here in New Zealand and Australia, and is actually shipping with a 30meg
- >> >SCSI drive, rather than the IDE drive that was previously mentioned.
- >> >So basically any 2.5" SCSI drive should cause no problems.
- >>
- >> Someone is trying to make one of your legs longer than the other. ;^)
- >>
- >> The A600 hardware *DOES NOT* come with SCSI and I know of no hardware available
- >> for it that makes it work with SCSI. The internal hardware is IDE. The
- >> internal drives are IDE.
- >>
- >
- > The leg puller in question ( not me!!!!) ran HDTOOLBOX on the A600HD and it
- > seems to scan the scsi bus and reported as if there was a normal SCSI drive
- > present.
- >
- > What a greatsoftware programme that can turn an IDE into a SCSI :-)
- >
- > Anyway the A600 is a real cute and sexy looking machine
- >
- >> /----------------------------------------------------------------------\
- >> | /// Michael Sinz - Senior Amiga Systems Engineer |
- >> | /// Operating System Development Group |
- >> | /// BIX: msinz UUNET: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com |
- >> |\\\/// |
- >> | \XX/ Quantum Physics: The Dreams that Stuff is made of. |
- >> \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
- >
- > Keith
-
- THERE IS NO SCSI IN ANY A600HD.
-
- The IDE drive uses a device named SCSI.device, this is why you thought
- HDtoolBox reported a SCSI drive. I guess C= run the A600 IDE drive through
- scsi.device is to aid in compability with software such as AMAX i.e.
- scsi.amhd will probably work.
-
- David
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