Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!hamal.usc.edu!mead From: mead@hamal.usc.edu (Dick Mead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: SCSI drives. Message-ID: <5481@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 21:11:25 EST Article-I.D.: oberon.5481 Posted: Tue Dec 1 21:11:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:59:53 EST References: <240@athos.rutgers.edu> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: mead@hamal.usc.edu (Dick Mead) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 20 Keywords: hard disk, scsi For those who don't know about it, there is a small company, with a tiny little ad in the back of A+ mag. that makes a SCSI controller for the Apple II/II+/IIe/GS. The product is MEGABOARD, from Perlin Electronics in Goleta, CA (805) 968-6089. This card fits in any slot 1-7, but works as if in 7. It will use nearly any ST506 type hard disk of 64Meg or less..1024 cyl max/8 heads max It formats 16 sectors at 256 bytes/sect.. Comes with software to format and config for DOS3.3, Apple Pascal, CP/M, PRODOS and the only "MUST HAVE" is one volume of DOS3.3 for all the utilities. Currently works with Pascal 1.1 and Prodos 1.1.1 or less, and CP/M 54k .. I have not been able to make it work with 44k CP/M or 60k CP/M 2.23, and it won't boot PRODOS 1.2 or higher yet. Oh yes, the price is $195.00 plus shipping and tax...The card runs pretty warm, and due to it's power requirements, has a pig-tail lead from the disk connector end for external +5, which you steal from the disk power supply. You can configure the disk to boot up in any of the installed systems. This might be worth checking out for those folks looking for a hard disk controller for the Apple. Dick