Looking for source of MFM or RLL drives

From: Jeffrey S. Worley <Technoid_at_30below.com>
Date: Fri Feb 7 09:11:00 2003

Now THAT is an excellent response to this question man. I installed a
70 meg ST506/412 drive in my Eagle system as a secondary drive. I tried
it as a primary just for fun, but it wants very specific geometries from
a hard-coded set of possibles. The drive I'd picked wasn't one of them.

Fortunately, the machine already had a 120megger as primary. I just
wanted to 'max' the thing as much as possible. Naturally.

Regards,

jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:31 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Looking for source of MFM or RLL drives

--- Kelly Leavitt <CCTalk_at_catcorner.org> wrote:
> Any good sources of MFM or RLL drives. This would be for a Tandy 6000
> running Xenix.
>
> I'm looking for 70 Meg or higher MFM (110 RLL capacity).

Hmm... those aren't so common (in the DEC world, there are two
choices - the RD53 (Miniscribe 1325) and the RD54 (Maxtor XT2190).

I take it you aren't constrained by a narrow set of expected
geometries? (i.e. - you have a running system and/or the install
procedure asks you about the drive rather than assuming?)

-ethan
Received on Fri Feb 07 2003 - 09:11:00 GMT