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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: specsix on October 17, 2007, 02:28:13 AM

Title: SupraSCSI for Harddrive/Networking ?
Post by: specsix on October 17, 2007, 02:28:13 AM

Hi guys...new to the forum...hope to make a home here :)

I have an amiga 500 and was going to add a scsi addon for hardrive and networking. What are your opinions on the SupraSCSI?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Supra-SCSI-add-on-for-amiga-500-with-driver
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What are my chances of getting a scsi network to a PC with this?

Thanks to anyone who can help me out!

Jake

Title: Re: SupraSCSI for Harddrive/Networking ?
Post by: Lemmink on October 17, 2007, 06:39:17 AM

The Problem with SCSI-Networks is that there is no software for the Amiga to make it save (the Siamese package contained software that could do it, but is is nothing you would run on a plain A500).

Of course you could just put two SCSI controllers on the SCSI chain if you could jumper one of the controllers to another ID (usually controllers are hard wired to ID7 but some have jumpers for the own ID) but you have to make sure  that there is no simultanious access to the same files as there is no software in place to handle blocking an releasing files during access from one or the other side.

Given the possible speed I alway wondered why there was no scsi networking software developed for the Amiga in the old day. Maybe because of the limitations of the cablelenght you could use.

Title: Re: SupraSCSI for Harddrive/Networking ?
Post by: DonnyEMU on October 17, 2007, 07:30:45 AM

There was C-Ltd offered a SCSI NETWORK for their controllers as well.. We used it as a LAN, although the huge cables sucked.. It was back in the 1.3 Amiga days.. It was sold too. C LTD fully supported network/lan software with it too..