11 Feb
2008
11 Feb
'08
1:17 p.m.
In my head I cannot always keep clear the
distinction between the early 80's IOMega
and the early 80's Syquest removable cartridge
drives.
Am I correct in remembering that the Syquests of
that time used the 34/20 pin MFM-hard-drive
"ST506" interface?
I have a couple of old SyQuest drives with this sort
of interface. They're sort of an odd form factor,
IIRC, like a tall 3 1/2" drive. 3 1/2" sized
cartridges though.
Were all the early 80's IOmega's SCSI or did
they
use something before that?
Syquests were always 5.25" or smaller form
factors,
is that right? Any 8" things
I'm remembering are probably Bernoulli Box carts?
I know the first Bernoulli boxes were big 8"
cartridges. I have one such external dual drive unit.
I'm pretty sure the interface is SCSI, but I'm not
positive. I don't have any cartridges, so I never
fooled around with it.
Later Bernoulli drives (early-mid 90's) were 5 1/4"
cartridges. I have seen SyQuest in both 5 1/4" and 3
1/2" cartridge styles.
-Ian