#SCSI 2/SCSI 1
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I want to add a CDROM to my A2000. I'm using a GVP SCSI controller.
Will SCSI 2 CDROMs and harddrives work with SCSI 1 controllers?
Thanks
Doug
I have an NEC 3XE, it has a DIP switch on the rear that lets you select either
SCSI 1 or 2 operation.
Jim R. Ollick on a Warped 4000/040/40
Using AP 1.75 from Bergenfield, NJ
>>I have an NEC 3XE, it has a DIP switch on the rear that lets you select
either SCSI 1 or 2 operation.<<
Thanks for the info Jim.
Whichever type I buy, I'll ask about the switchability. At least now I
know a NEC 3XE will work.
Doug
The Toshiba 3401 is also switchable between SCSI1 and 2.
— Dogs crawl under Gates, Software crawls under Windoze —
Rick Green via AutoPilot 1.74
Thanks for the reply Rick.
It sounds like I won't have a problem finding a CDROM that will work with
my SCSI 1 card.
Doug P
Doug,
I run my NEC 3Xi CD-ROM drive in SCSI-2 mode on my old C Ltd. SCSI-1
controller.
Regards, Jorgen ….from Roskilde, DENMARK (using CIS LATIN-1 char set)
Thanks Jorgen, I'll add your information to the file I'm keeping.
Doug
The Toshiba 3501 internal I have just figures out whether your running SCSI 1
or 2. FWIW: so does my external 270M Syquest.
Robb
Robert,
Is the Toshiba 3501 one of the new quad speed drives?
How do you like it?
Doug P
Doug,
Yep, the 3501 is a quad. SYSINFO isn't the greatest disk speed checker, but it
tells me it's got the speed of my 270M Syquest. Both are faster than my (older)
hard drives!
I like it fine, except I still am not sure why I bought except to say I have
one. It's handy for some things, but there really aren't too many things I can
use it for. Unfortunately.
Robb
Robb,
Sounds like a great drive. I'm in the same position as you are, I don't
have a great many of uses for one but I feel like I'm missing something by
not haveing one.
Doug
Doug,
Actually I had a couple good reasons to buy it, but I can't use it for those
yet.
It's a fun toy. It'll probably be more usefull when it's hooked to, sorry to
say, another platform. Which is looking more and more inevitable :(.
Robb
Robb,
The idea of being able to use the drive on 'another platform' is part of
my rationalization for getting one. So far I've successfully avoided
buying the 'other platform' but as you say, it may be inevitable. What a
step backward that will be :(.
If you have the external one, you can play audio CDs on it while you work!
(BTW, I have the last version of the Xetec ROM driver software before they went
belly-up, and their software took less space, operated faster, and had a better
audio-CD player interface than ASIms does.).
Anyway, there are other uses. If you do DTP/MM/DTV, there are lots of
backgrounds, clip-art, Fonts etc on CDRom all excessible with Xetec or ASim
CDFS. If you have the external model you can run the audio out to a mixer or
digitizer and get digital sound files to mess with. (My primary business use
is to copy and edit tracks from the production music library CD's I have for
playback from the AD516 during a video edit session – laying down the audio
track with frame accuracy.)
Then there are the 'save your butt' PD collection – Fish and AmiNet CDRoms.
If you have trouble figuring out what to do with it decide you'd rather have
the desk space back, you can send it to me – it'll be good company for my 3401.
:^}
wmc – via Autopilot!