Where to get SCSI hard drives

[melott]

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Mel

[Tenacious]

@ Kat

There is an Amiga dealer near you, or was.  In recent years, he has been letting his inventory dwindle.  Compuquick - 614 428-4113 or -4119, is run out of the back of an India food store in Gahanna.  The phone greeting will probably not mention Compuquick. Address is 1147 Hamilton Rd.  

He used to have new and used hardware, many CD titles, the last Amiga magazines, etc.  It might be worth browsing around for a deal.

[zipper]

Google Earth:

Compuquick Media Center

1147 N Hamilton Rd
Gahanna, OH 43230
(614) 428-4113

It's so easy nowadays...

[KatManDEW]

Holy cow Tenacious! That's a sweet load of Amiga hardware in your sig!

I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.

[broken]

KatManDEW wrote:
I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.

Doesn't surprise me.

I emailed Randhir from Compuquick a month ago and got one reply from him and that was it. Hadn't heard from him again.

Sad too. He used to have quite a large Amiga inventory back in the 90's.

[Floid]

KatManDEW wrote:
Holy cow Tenacious! That's a sweet load of Amiga hardware in your sig!

I called the guy in Gahana and he didn't act like he has much left. He has no 50 pin SCSI drives. Looks like a 50-68 pin adapter for me.

When adapting a 68 pin wide drive to a 50 pin narrow bus, be aware that a lot of drives will not fall back gracefully unless the unused lines (high byte) of the wide bus are terminated.

So for this purpose, and to avoid surprises when swapping drives (the one you find today might work without it, but the next one of a different model might not), make sure you get an adapter with "high byte termination."

Or use a 68-pin cable with wide termination at each end and adapt only the connection to the narrow host adapter, but that creates more of an electrical "stub," so YMMV.

[KatManDEW]

If I go IDE, would I be better off with a Budda or a ACard? Would I be able to boot with either of those with my GVP 040 accelerator?

I kinda like the Budda from what I know about it.