On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, John Rollins wrote:
> >But, it squeaks. You know, like a water pump on a car before it blows
> >(that's the pump bearings, BTW). Does anyone have any check-out/maintenance
> >tips for this drive? The hard drive is labeled "Seagate model ST-506".
> Sounds like the ProFile card is just an ST-506 hard drive interface. A
> ST-506 drive is REALLY old. I'm not an expert on the old hard
> drives/interfaces, so I'll let someone else figure all that out, but I can
The ST-506 is a 5mb disk and is the first built by Seagate, I believe.
> tell you that it is very old. Does the ProFile need a seperate power
> cord(does it have it's own ps), or does it get power from the Apple II?
> And if the ProFile is just an ST-506 interface, does that mean I could just
> plug one of my old ST-225's or other ST-506 type drives intoa ProFile card?
Unless you are able to patch the software, you should be able to replace
it with an ST-225 or any other MFM drive, provided that the new one has
at least 306 cylinders and 4 heads. More is OK, but less will cost you
storage space.
If you can patch the software, your options are much wider.
> -JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html - Computers
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- don
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