CompuServe Messages

Dave, Well, Mike Schiller confirmed what you said about the scsi connections. I really didn't think that you could actually chain across system busses. Now, my interest is piqued. My tower has room for my spare VGA card and my ST02 SCSI controller for the PC. If I remove the multi-i/o card I can run a scsi hard drive on the PC side and chain to the Amiga side and have access to my tape drive for backup on the PC side. Unfortunately, my cheapo PC scsi won't live with the IDE controller and it is very simple and cannot be flexibly configured. The controller is "hard wired" at ID7. I don't even know if the card is in any way terminated. It has no terminators on it and I never used it but with one terminated drive when it was connected to the bridgeboard. However, the card will handle up to seven devices, although I think the devices must have their IDs in numeric sequence or it won't recognize a device. Can I just daisy chain this sucker anywhere on the Amiga scsi chain, renumber the Amiga controller to ID6, and it would, presumably, "see" the Amiga devices already on the chain? The controller also has no drivers or software. I don't even know if it will work with a scsi tape drive through Fastback unless there is a driver. Does this mean I really need a "better" controller, perhaps with the Corel suite of drivers? If I really need a better scsi controller for the PC side, which would be the best device to look at? Of possible concern would be one that is known to work with OS/2 2.1 (I have it, but don't know if I ever want to use it.)