12 Jul
2002
12 Jul
'02
9:26 p.m.
Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
There was a Fuji MFM drive also called the Eagle?
When I think of an
"Eagle", I think of the ~10" platter, 10.5" tall, 19" wide SMD
drive that clocks in around 400MB - I have several of them, and
some SI9900 controllers with Massbus cards.
That's the one. Definitely MFM.
Not an ST-506 interface, though, which I later realized is what
this discussion is apparently about.
I wouldn't claim that the XT2190 was the absolute
largest capacity MFM
drive, but it's pretty close, ISTR. Right about the time that 16 heads
by 1024 cyls was about the largest you could get is when
ESDI began to take over the large end of the small computer market and
IDE began to take over the small end.
1224 cylinders for the XT-2190. Some controllers couldn't handle that
many; typically they were limited to 1024.