Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!gingold From: gingold@endor.harvard.edu (David Gingold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ST-506 to SCSI controller info want Message-ID: <4860@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 15:23:13 GMT References: <246@iconsys.UUCP> <76000240@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: gingold@endor.UUCP (David Gingold) Organization: Aiken Computation and Occult Research Lab, Harvard, Cambridge, MA Lines: 22 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? Adaptec makes such a board. I have one; it's great. The ACB4000A is a ST506 to SCSI, and the 4070 board supports RLL drives. I use the 4000A with a 10 Meg drive; I'm certain that the drive is far slower than the board. I bought the board from Computer Surplus for $89, and another $8 for the manual. I have also heard that there is an Adaptec board which has been optomised for Macintosh use. If there is enough interest, I'd be happy to post a long description of the process of building your own hard drive for the mac. It works out to be a good bargain if you can get a good deal on a drive. The drives used are ST506 compatable, the standard used with IBM PCs. -david gingold gingold@endor.harvard.edu, or whatever address scheme floats your boat.