non-SCSI disks on a SCSI disk interface (was Re: Space, the next frontier)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed May 26 22:20:07 1999

<I've had decent results with the ADAPTEC 4070's too. What I'm mainly

The 4070 and a maxtor2190 will get you near 200mb.

I also have a couple of boxes (disk, powersupply and scsi bridge controller)
that I use for VIsual1050s that are the adaptec non RLL board. Those also
run quantum d540s (31mb). For a lot of small stuff the Quantum d540 is a
reliable st506 interface MFM drive, it runs RLL encoding well and is fast.
Besides, I have a big bunch of them so if a box doesn't use all 512
cylinders or 8 heads not great feeling of loss.

<interested in is having a boxed drive, in this case, complete with bridge
<controller, which moves from system to system, as I do with my native SCSI
<drives. Unfortunately, there aren't any MFM/RLL drives big enough to be

there are a few EDSI bridges that would easily do serious space. Of
course you can just stuff any scsi DISK into a box and be done and skip
the bridge board. the latter is har not to do when for 200$ you can get
a couple of GB of narrow ultra SCSI and box for maybe 19-29$.

I do that with a bunch of DEC RZ56s (680mb 5.25" full height scsi) I have.

Allison
Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 22:20:07 BST