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- From: jbare@cup.portal.com (John D Barela)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI<-->MFM and SupraDrive 500XP
- Message-ID: <73357@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 01:10:33 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <72608@cup.portal.com> <John_Davis.6hlt@equinox.gen.nz>
- <1993Jan8.125934.21447@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- Thomas VanNess Leavitt (reavis@cheshire.oxy.edu) writes:
- >In article <John_Davis.6hlt@equinox.gen.nz> John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz (The Nos
- e
- >) writes:
- >>John D Barela (jbare@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- >>
- >>>Also, does anyone know where I might find an OMTI 3527 SCSI <-> RLL board?
- >>> (deleted)
- >>>
- >>I doubt the omti will be any faster, when we tested the 4070 it gave
- >>a raw speed of about 700K/s, the theoretical maximum for a 1:1 RLL drive
- >>is about 800K/S, so it looks like the 4070 merely is getting lost revs
- >>on step (which means we should have told format on the sun to skew accross
- >>cylinders).
- >>
- >>>Another elusive piece I've been trying to track down is an Emulex MT-02.
- >>>This is a SCSI <-> QIC-36 adapter that I hope to use with a Wangtek
- >>>5099EG24
- >>> (deleted)
- >>>
- >>ask around any Sun oriented outfit - the mt02 was the standard tape
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Thanks for this suggestion.
- Can anyone provide name & ph# for such an outfit? I work in a sea of H.P.
- and so far haven't had much luck in finding anything. I would really like
- to find this MT-02.
-
- >>controller in the old sun shoeboxes (typically connected to either an
- >>archive 5945c or wangtek 5099en24). Since a 60Mb tape drive is a bit
- >>small for a Unix system nowdays, you should be able to find an un-used
- >>one easy enough (that's how I got mine)
- >>
- >>--
- >>--
- >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>John Davis | davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz |
- >> | chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz | #include witty_comments.h
- >> | John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz |
- >
- >I have an Adaptec SCSI to RLL/MFM adapter, capable of supporting up to
- >4 ST-506 hard-drives at once... unfortunately, my and my friends lack of
- >knowledge about MFM specifications (writing a boot-list) and the non
- >standard nature of my Atasi 39.3 meg MFM hard drive have conspired to
- >render this unusual after months and months of trying.
- >
- >Want to take my Adaptec off me? I need cash, bad.
- >
- >Thom
- >
- >mail reavis@cheshire.oxy.edu
-
- Thanks for the offer, but since I haven't found the OMTI 3527, I went
- ahead and ordered the Adaptec 4070A. Just out of curiosity though, what
- Adaptec model supports 4 drives?
-
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