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Re: SATA drive card

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Mark Wade wrote:
> D Finnigan wrote:
>> Mark Wade wrote:
>>> I have a card I purchased some years ago installed in slot 7 of a IIgs.
>>> I
>>> don't remember its provenance or name but was wondering if anyone
>>> remembers
>>> just what it is and if it will work in a //e.
>> 
>> If it will work in a IIe: more likely yes than no.
>> 
>>> 
>>> The SCSI drive hooked to a Super Serial card in my //e seems to have
>>> failed
>>> (SCSI boot error), not the first time or drive. I've ordered a used 160
>>> MB
>>> IBM HD from eBay, hopefully I can get that working.  I'd rather leave
>>> the
>>> SATA drive in the IIgs but if I need to I was wondering if it's an
>>> option
>>> for the //e.
>>> 
>> 
>> Are you referring to a SCSI card in your IIe that failed? If you want to
>> continue using SCSI devices, you could upgrade to a solid state SCSI disk
>> emulator such as a SCSI2SD.
>>
> 
> The card,Apple Super Serial Card, seems okay. I think the drive has
> failed.
> I have a doohickey attached, an APC SCSI Sentry, and it seems the card is
> communicating with the drive. I'm hoping the drive I ordered, due
> Saturday,
> will work out.

Interesting. I'd never heard of the SCSI Sentry device before. It's a
special terminator.

> 
> I was just wondering my options.
>

There are enough options these days. :-)


> The SATA drive/card is in a spare IIgs and
> formatted and software installed for that machine and I'd like to leave it
> that way but if it will work in a //e and can be formatted with the
> utilities I have that would be an option.

There's a good chance that the drive and card would work in the Apple IIe.
You would just need to put ProDOS 8 on it for the Apple IIe, instead of
GS/OS.

> 
> SCSI2SD I've looked at briefly some time ago when I heard of it. I thought
> they were in short supply due to chip shortages or do I have that all
> wrong?

That may have been the case, but there are now a few clones and work-alikes,
such as BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI. Check them out.



-- 
]DF$
The New Apple II User's Guide:
https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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SATA drive card Mark Wade <markwade@optonline.net> - 2024-02-21 18:45 +0000
  Re: SATA drive card Tom Thumb <justliketomsthumbsblues@gmail.com> - 2024-02-21 10:49 -0800
  Re: SATA drive card D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-02-21 22:20 +0000
    Re: SATA drive card Mark Wade <markwade@optonline.net> - 2024-02-22 15:43 +0000
      Re: SATA drive card D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-02-22 15:50 +0000
        Re: SATA drive card Mark Wade <markwade@optonline.net> - 2024-02-22 16:11 +0000
      Re: SATA drive card Mark Wade <markwade@optonline.net> - 2024-02-22 16:02 +0000
        Re: SATA drive card D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-02-22 16:26 +0000

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