Reverse Engineer the Spectre GCR?

Sideburn

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Maybe you can contact David Small?
He has a website: https://davidsmallstoryteller.wordpress.com/about/

And a not very active Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=748538110&name=xhp_nt__fb__action__open_user


* I’ve got one coming in a week or two to tinker with. Just posted in another thread on here asking if anyone knows about the GCR being able to read Mac formatted SCSI disks. I read somewhere online that it could do this. But I didn’t think the ST HD port was SCSI. Thought it was ACSI only.
 

mg.man

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Thought it was ACSI only.
AFAIK, yes. I *do* have an original - Adaptec even - card that "translates" ACSI to SCSI. I used it back when my GCR was new along with another card that "translated" SCSI to ST-506!! I ran 2 x 30Mb IBM ST-506 5 1/4" HDDs off the pair - with TOS and Mac partitions connected to my self-upgraded 4Mb 520stfm. 😀
 

Sideburn

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AFAIK, yes. I *do* have an original - Adaptec even - card that "translates" ACSI to SCSI. I used it back when my GCR was new along with another card that "translated" SCSI to ST-506!! I ran 2 x 30Mb IBM ST-506 5 1/4" HDDs off the pair - with TOS and Mac partitions connected to my self-upgraded 4Mb 520stfm. 😀
Interesting. So you mean yes ACSI only so No it can’t read Mac SCSI disks out of the box?