SASI interface, SCSI devices...

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Wed Feb 9 14:16:37 CST 2005


Steve wrote:
> Briefly Googling left me with the impression that hooking a
> SASI device to even an old SCSI contoller is pretty dicey, but
> no good feel for how well a random SCSI device might work with
> a SASI controller.

I've had mixed results hooking SCSI drives to SASI host interfaces.
Systems using SASI often used SASI-to-ST506 controllers, and the
host sometimes issues vendor-unique commands to those controllers,
which a SCSI drive will not understand.

Eric




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