HD Controllers - S-100 & Corvus Omninet

Thanks for the interesting info, Frank. I thought that Corvus had used these drives because I've got Corvus ads from old Bytes and they certainly do look like these 7710's; not much else looks like these babies. But although I've seen a reference to ANSI X3T9, I gather that the interface was proprietary to IMI. Don't need the docs for the interface, but thanks for mentioning that you've got some; I've got a manual for the controller from the good old days when manuals actually told you something, as well as calibration notes for the drives, and am about to check out the drives before I get rid of them. I was just curious if the controllers are of any use for any other drives since I have more controllers than drives. If you want the Corvus board, send me a note off list & let me know where you are. mike -------------------Original Message---------------- Date: 01 Dec 2001 00:08:00 -0800 From: Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> Subject: Re: HD Controllers - S-100 & Corvus Omninet M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net> wrote: Yes, Corvus used these drives. I'd expect Onyx did too; the story is that the VC who funded IMI also funded Onyx and Corvus so that IMI would have customers. It's interesting to know that Cromemco used them too. I'm sitting here looking at a photocopy of a data sheet of sorts for the IMI 7710, and it does provide some description of the interface. 25 signals on a 34-line bus. I suspect it's somewhere between "more than I want to type" and "less than you need to know to use the drive", because I can't quite figure out how you would transfer a block of data to the drive from what's printed here. Yes, that's the Corvus hard disk interface for S-100, p/n 8010-08008-00. I could be interested in it. - -Frank McConnell