SASI interface, SCSI devices...

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Feb 9 14:16:37 2005

Steve wrote:
> Briefly Googling left me with the impression that hooking a
> SASI device to even an old SCSI contoller is pretty dicey, but
> no good feel for how well a random SCSI device might work with
> a SASI controller.

I've had mixed results hooking SCSI drives to SASI host interfaces.
Systems using SASI often used SASI-to-ST506 controllers, and the
host sometimes issues vendor-unique commands to those controllers,
which a SCSI drive will not understand.

Eric
Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 14:16:37 GMT