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From: steckel@alliant.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: SCSI FLOPPY
Message-ID: <927@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 22:45:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 22:45:06 1987
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Reply-To: steckel@alliant.UUCP (Geoff Steckel)
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Keywords: SCSI

Several manufacturers make SA450 (?I think that's the number) to SCSI
cards.  I.E., buy your floppy  and a bridge controller, as they're called,
and you have a SCSI floppy.  Since most floppy drives cost ~= $100 and a
SCSI controller costs about the same, most of the controllers will actually
run two floppies, and some of them will run a ST412/ST506 hard disk as well.
Some even run QIC-02 tapes.  I haven't used a floppy controller, but am
reasonably happy with a Scientific Micro Systems OMTI 3527 RLL hard disk
control.  SMS makes an omnibus (tape, disk, & floppy) card for $250 or so.

Other companies NCR (in Wichita), Adaptec (though their Multibus I host
adapter has at least 1 fatal (for me) bug), & maybe Western Digital.

Hope this is useful.

	Geoff Steckel (steckel@alliant.COM)