Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!linus!alliant!steckel 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 Article-I.D.: alliant.927 Posted: Fri Dec 4 22:45:06 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 20:25:41 EST References: <119@abvax.UUCP> <398@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Reply-To: steckel@alliant.UUCP (Geoff Steckel) Distribution: na Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 15 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)