[Coco] SCSI Bus Trivia

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 09:04, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

>One thing I learned from a manual for the Adaptac SCSI-2-MFM board

> that I bought on eBay a couple years ago, was that a trace needed to

> be cut to use two of these boards on the same bus.

>

>I haven't done this yet. (I've two "spare" boards.) the concept of 4

> 159Meg hard drives hooked to one little CoCo 3 would seem to

> epitimize luxuary in unused space.


Yeah, but you have to keep at least one wheel turning over at the hydro 
plant to power them, Bruce.  I took the easy way out & moved one of the 
1GB Seagate Hawks I had in my amiga to the coco when the amiga's big 
drive died, and now have 500megs for os9 and 255 virtual floppies using 
hdb-dos.  All on 2-3 watts to turn it.

159 Megs?  Those would need to be formatted at 2 sectors per cluster as 
its about 28 megs over the 1 sector size limit.


>Bruce W.


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