ST506 on a modern system

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_monmouth.com>
Date: Mon Jan 11 05:44:30 1999

> Of course why you want to is another matter. IMHO ST506 drives should be
> reserved for those machines that _need_ them - machines that you can't
> use an IDE drive with (there are plenty of other ST506 controllers that
> don't look a bit like that Western Digital one, you see). ST506 drives
> are rarely larager than 120Mbytes - massive on a classic computer but
> tiny on a modern PC.
>
> -tony
>
>
>

Massive. Tony, please.
Massive was the Bell Labs AT with three Fujitsu Eagles on it.

It ran a WD SMD controller.

Would've loved to see Xenix on that beast. It was running DOS.


Bill

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