SCSI is just SCSI?
Well, the disc space that I thought would be more than enough on my A3000
at work is almost gone. I do have access to a 400mb area on the HP-UX box
it's connected to through NFS, but there are limits to what I can store
there.
So my question is: is SCSI always SCSI? See, Fry's Electronics often has
SCSI drives at bargain basement prices. Moreover, I know a few Mac people
who may want to get rid of drives cheap. Can I just hook one of these up
to the SCSI port on the A3000, format it and go? Seems like it should work
to me, but I'm told by one of my Mac-using friends that that isn't true of
Mac SCSI; there is some kind of configuration software that must already be
on the disk (though I don't know how it gets there if no Macs can recognize
it). This doesn't make sense to me, but I'd like to know if something
similar is true of Amiga drives.
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