Amiga 500 to Mac Hd
08-Jul-92 05:31:01
Sb: #25425-Amiga 500 to Mac Hd
Fm: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John:
I reciently bought a few Konica 5.25" 10 meg SCSI floppy drives from
Peripheral Land a large MAC accessory company, and several of the drives
had extra circuit cards added by PLI to make the drives compatible with
the MAC, and/or had the SCSI reset line cut. The Mac sends several reset
signals when it reboots, and the Konica drives (and several others I'm
told) can't handle getting many resets in a row. The Amiga on the other
hand sends only 1 reset per reboot as it should so the Konicas work fine
on the Amiga with the reset line intact.
I've also seen many MAC drives (not nessasarily Apple ones, but ones
designed to be added to a MAC) that were preset to a specific SCSI ID, and
I'm told that the MAC has trouble with certain SCSI ID's, or something
such as that.
Basically Macs aren't as SCSI compatible as most Amiga SCSI host adapters
are.
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale