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Article #9888Re: SASI = SCSI?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 22:28
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 22:28
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In article <86715@unix.cis.pitt.edu> kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes: > Now, someone told me that the SASI interface is a relative > of SCSI. SASI is SCSI's grizzled old ancestor. They are nominally still interoperable, last I heard. > Does anyone know if I can hook up a hard drive > to the ST506 side and the SASI side to a Macintosh and > expect this to work? Maybe. There is no *fundamental* reason for this to be unworkable, but much depends on details. (E.g., is the Mac expecting a more modern controller and trying to exploit post-SASI features?) -- "Maybe we should tell the truth?" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Surely we aren't that desperate yet." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: SASI = SCSI? Message-ID: <1991Feb2.222821.12163@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <86715@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 1991 22:28:21 GMT