Quothe Jeff Brendle, from writings of Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:16:32AM -0500:
> Other than the older MFM/RLL stuff that probably will work if you can
> still find the IBM drives (I guess this was inherited, as the ps/2 mod
There's one full-height one around here somewhere, IIRC... not very
much capacity, however; didn't come with this system.
> 60 based 6152s used the stock "R"s, so was that RLL?, if I remember
> right, 40s or 70s I think, but I never saw anything but "E"-series ESDI
> drives in the towers, in a few sizes, 70, something around 100, and
> then the big 310). I think that some really old adaptec SCSI adapter
It's been so long since I've tried to use this machine, that I forget
exactly what's in it. Originally, it had three ESDI hard drives in
it, two 70 and one 40, or vice versa, IIRC. I swapped one of the
drives with a 330MB Micropolis, and that worked, but one of the drives
soon bit the dust, or there was some sort of weird error message;
trying to remember. Going to have to power it up and see what
happens... To confuse me all the more, watch it decide not to show me
the error message and boot instead. :-)
> was also supported (forget the model # right now, think it was the
> aha-1522 but with a less common letter?) & that was back in the days of
> small SCSI drives (sub-1GB) ... of course, that SCSI card wasn't
> "easily obtainable" several years ago when I thought about trying this
> under AOS (someone had ported the drivers), so I don't know if anyone
> is out there still doing this or what might be out there still. I know
> that there was even a limitation on the ESDI drives that would work....
> something about a short pulse that was odd (so you had to get a
> specific version of the Maxtor 310MB drive & other ESDIs we tried
Will have to try to get to that drive and see what the model number
is; should have at least one spare similar drive for emergencies if
it's still useable.
> wouldn't work). Most info is in the RT FAQ
> [http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/ibmrt/faqs/], so don't trust
> my bad memory, look it up... =-) ANywho... I still have some of this
Thanks. Time to take another look... it hadn't changed the last time I
looked at it though; I was just wondering if anything had changed
since the FAQ was last updated.
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