Ampro Little Board questions...

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sun Dec 16 09:39:16 2001

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
>I know I can use any length of ribbon I want. What I'd like to know is
>what it was when it was new. (and it's 34 pin card-edge connectors that
>are needed :) )


I take them off old PC floppy cables.

>The drive is a Miniscribe 8425S and AFAIK, it's set to ID 0 with the
>terminating resistors installed. Seagate or Maxtor is not listed as a
>_controller_ choice when HFORMAT is run.


Yep! It's possible to use that drive but the Ampro provided tools only
recognized drives from the era, there were many good choices in
later years.

Allison
Received on Sun Dec 16 2001 - 09:39:16 GMT