other things besides floppies...

From: David C. Jenner <djenner_at_halcyon.com>
Date: Sat Jul 25 21:49:07 1998

It's JDR, at least, and it's pricey (~$80). I put one of these in an
XT a few years ago, and it works like a charm. Even autodetects the
hard drive type(s).

I've heard of this being found on junk tables for $2-5, because it's
not obivous, unless you know what you're looking at, that it's not just
another old MFM controller from an XT.

Dave

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> < I just got an Amstrad ppc 640, and am starting to realise how much I rea
> < wish this thing had a hard disk - even a little one. Is there ANY sort
> < hard disk solution that will plug into a 720k 3.5inch floppy controller
> <
> < Ideally it would come out the other end in IDE, and I could put one of t
> < little 1.8 inch 20 meg IDE drives in the thing. Speed is not a huge con
> < since this is a 4.77mhz XT class machine.
>
> If it has ISA bus either JADE, JAMCO or JDR I forget which, sells an
> ISA-8 bit to standard IDE adaptor. What makes it nice is it has bios
> support on it. Acculogic made one too at lone time.
>
> Allison
Received on Sat Jul 25 1998 - 21:49:07 BST