Atari hard drives? The actual Atari Answer :)

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Thu Jun 4 01:50:26 1998

On 4 Jun 98 at 20:33, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> > > Okay gang. I just can't take it, I gotta help this guy become an atarian. :)
> > > Okay, this is what; you need. You need an ATSCI to SCSI converter
> >
> > OK, but what to do with the system that takes an ST-506 interface drive? I just
>
> This is a problem that I've been thinking about rather a lot - not for
> Ataris, but for old workstations (PERQ, Xerox, etc) that have an ST506
> controller built in to the I/O board.
>
> I've been thinking of designing an interface that'll link a SCSI or IDE
> drive to an ST506 controller. The problem is I'd have to know quite a bit
> about the low-level format of the drive so that I could simulate it on
> the interface. And that data is not easy to come by.
>
> But I am worried that ST506 drives are becoming less common every year,
> and there's no easy way to repair them.
>
> -tony
>
 IIRC this is almost what the card in the Atari SH205 did . It changed the MFM
to SCSI and then changed the SCSI to ATASCI . I don't have one but I imagine it
is well documented in Atari circles
 BTW I have an old SpinRite with a doc that warns about the danger of RLL

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 01:50:26 BST