Probably not.
My experience with the Apple-specific bridge controllers is that they are set up
for a specific drive geometry in their firmware, which is Apple-specific, and
geometries other than that won't work. They don't seem to have the ability to
respond to drives that are set up on an otherwise identical, but non-Apple,
bridge board, that have a different geometry or some other unpalatable
characteristic, e.g. sector size, or some such.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: 3.5" MFM hard disk
> >Ah, I see. It's some whacko custom thingie. Didn't the Lisa originally
> >use some kind of ProFile-ish thing (custom interface, custom drive
> >electronix, etc.).
>
> I opened up my 5meg Profile hard disk finally and found that
> it has a ST-506 inside of it coupled to a couple of Apple coverter
> cards. Most of the case of those Profiles is taken up by the PSU.
> At least that bodes well for eventually getting it running again if
> the drive itself appears to be fairly normal. Without bothering the
> drive geometry settings, if there are any, wouldn't any MFM drive
> attached to this setup then appear to the system to be the 506?
>
> Jeff
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Received on Sat Jun 02 2001 - 14:33:52 BST