Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!davely
From: davely@mcrware.UUCP (Dave Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ST-506 to SCSI controller info want
Summary: There are quite a few
Message-ID: <713@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 20:23:26 GMT
References: <246@iconsys.UUCP> <76000240@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <76000240@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> So why doesn't some enterprising engineering company make a ST-506 -
> to - SCSI drive controller?  Would it simply be too slow?  If it were
> cheap (< $200), you sure could make a load of money very very very
> fast....

	If what you're talking about is a controller that talks to an 
ST-506 drive on one side and talks SCSI out the other, there are
quite a few.  We've used ones from Scientific Microsystems, Adaptec
and Xybec around here.  I'm not sure how these would work on the 
Mac.  I think you would have to modify the SCSI driver since these
controllers need to be told about the kind of drive they're working
with whereas the imbeded kind common on Mac's already know but I'm
sure they could be made to work.

Dave Lyons  				...!sun!mcrware!davely

I have an opinion but Microware doesn't want anything to do with it.