Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Forums
« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Using a Squirrel SCSI Interface with latest 52x CD-ROM's  (Read 2250 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline KennyR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 8081
    • Show all replies
    • http://wrongpla.net
Re: Using a Squirrel SCSI Interface with latest 52x CD-ROM's
« on: April 30, 2003, 04:31:41 PM »
There's no reason why it wouldn't work, as long as it had the 50pin centronics interface the Squirrel uses. Wouldn't be fast though. I had a SCSI CD-ROM myself - it could do 2MB/s on my BPPC SCSI, but only 0.8KB/S on my Squirrel. It was also a CPU hog on the Squirrel.
Logged
 

Offline KennyR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 8081
    • Show all replies
    • http://wrongpla.net
Re: Using a Squirrel SCSI Interface with latest 52x CD-ROM's
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2003, 04:43:27 PM »
Quote
The manual for the Squirrel SCSI claims it will do 3MB/s transfer with a 68030 processor, or 2MB/s with a 68020. But then I've never trusted manufacturers claims!


Wise! There's no way a squirrel will do 3MB/s, even on an 060. PCMCIA is too damn slow and CPU hungry.

Quote
If my external SCSI case was 68-pin, I assume that I could use a lead to convert it to the Squirrel's 50-Pin, and it would still work?


Yes. SCSI is backward compatible. Be careful to get the right one, though.
Logged
 
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »