Hello !
The company I work for have decided to can their old SCII interface and start using IDE instead. First question. Which is easier to interface ? Does anyone know a good place where I can find some info about this ? What Chips where used back in the old Machintosh days (68030) in the IDE interfaces ?
Help is greatly appreciated
/Otto Blomqvist
Really old Macs used Zilog 8-bit SCSI interfaces. I'm pretty sure this statement covers most of the 68K Macs. I think some of the later 040 models may have had NCR chips. Once they moved from NuBus to PCI, they started using Adaptec IIRC.
You must be kidding. IDE is *far* simpler, almost trivial.
I'd read the ATA-5 spec. of which a copy can be found at the
I just realized that I didn't actually answer your QUESTION. Grrr. The oldest Macs I have around the office run the IDE bus into a VLSI part with a custom Apple part number.
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