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Article #2Re: IDE to ESDI Conversion. IDE & ESDI pin Go SCSI !!!!
From: Gary Wood
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 07:27
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 07:27
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In <2pfhct$gsi@hacgate2.hac.com> lee@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com (John Lee) writes: >In article <2p5dd7$ais@erinews.ericsson.se> etlinbe@etlxd20.ericsson.se writes: >>I cant remember who off hand, but it was on eof the major Hard Drive >>manufactures that used to make a ESDI -> SCSI interface. Its not >>manufactured anymore, but maybe you can advertise for a 2nd hand one. >>The small card allowed to to plug in 2 ESDI drives, which it would then >>fool the SCSI bus into thinking were two partitions on a 'single' >>physical device. >> >>As far as I'm aware, its just plug in and go. >The ESDI-to-SCSI adapter I have is the MD21 Drive Controller by Emulex. It >was used in Sun Microsystems Sun-3 "Shoeboxes". Another one also used by >Sun was made by Adaptec, but I don't know the model number. ACB-4520 was the Adaptec target adapter. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The crew faces deadly GURUs! Next time on AmigaDOS: The Next Generation. > +--------+ John Lee > | HUGHES | > +--------+ ARPAnet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com >The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine. Gary
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!smrtstr!nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com!kaiwan!gwood From: gwood@kaiwan.com (Gary Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: IDE to ESDI Conversion. IDE & ESDI pin Go SCSI !!!! Date: 3 May 1994 00:27:56 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <gwood.767949954@kaiwan> References: <2p3ggt$pil@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> <2p5dd7$ais@erinews.ericsson.se> <2pfhct$gsi@hacgate2.hac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com