9 Aug
2010
9 Aug
'10
11:01 p.m.
On 8/10/10 1:27 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Things I'm interested in particular:
- What SCSI adapter were you using? What device drivers and OS?
Adaptec 1542C. I don't recall which drivers, this was ~1991 or so.
I'm almost thinking there weren't any drivers (the 1542C had an onboard
BIOS ROM) but I seem to recall having a special formatting program.
(this was with a 44MB drive) The OS in use was DOS, probably v3.3.
- On the older 8" drives - are 10" carts
read only, or should they be
writable too?
Digging in very dusty memory here; I used quite a few of these. I'm
kinda sad that I don't have any left, but I've not touched them since
about 1991. I used the 10MB and 20MB 8" drives at home, and 5.25" 44MB
drives at work around that time, both under DOS. Distant memories
suggest that the 10MB disks are read-only in 20MB drives but I'm not
positive. At home I had an Iomega controller board for the 8" drives,
PC2-something.
- Does anybody know of a source for 20MB cartridges
for the older 8"
drive? Having used 10MB cartridges that I'm not sure I can write too is
kind of useless.
...eBay...not hard to find..
I'm going to need therapy after this. I have
thought about throwing the
damned things out the window.
;)
I actually had really good luck with them. I had dozens of disks, but
I think I only had one or two of the 8" disks fail, and I've never seen
a 44MB disk fail. They're surprisingly reliable.
Oh wait, I DO have one 8" subsystem left, it's a dual 20MB subsystem
on a PDP-11 in a Kevex spectrometer for my SEM. I've not actually tried
to fire it up, it's in storage so I can't look at it, but I know I still
have it. Someday, when there's time..
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL