#A MacII HD in my Amiga?
07-Jan-89 20:58:39
Sb: #29103-#A MacII HD in my Amiga?
Fm: David Kieltyka 73200,3553
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
Don,
This afternoon I found a flyer in my HardFrame/2000 box that pertains to
using Mac-style SCSI drives with an Amiga. (I've only had the HardFrame for a
few days, so I'll excuse myself for not going over the docs more thoroughly.
8^>) The flyer notes that "many SCSI drives aimed at the Macintosh user have
Pin 40 disabled on their internal cabling." Pin 40 carries the SCSI Reset
signal, apparently necessary for proper Amiga operation but detrimental to
proper Mac HD autobooting. It thus appears that the drives themselves are the
same regardless of which machine they're marketed for; only the cabling is
different. So as long as I use the SCSI ribbon cable provided with my
HardFrame, everything should be cool.
-Dave