17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
6:03 a.m.
At 12:14 PM 3/17/02 -0500, you wrote:
The SB-180s used them. A lot of the later CPM and early MS-DOS (but not
necessarily IBM compatible) machines used them. For example, they were
popular additons to the Sanyo 55xs. I just found a pair of Teac 80 track
drives inside of an old Multibus system (The same one that had the GAPP
cards in it).
can I
225s and 251s are handy to keep around since they'll replace a number of
OLD hard drives. I've used 225s to replace the dries inside of some of the
HP HP-IB disk drives.
Joe
IIRC the
Floppy on an Altos 580 is DSQD.
Am I correct that while different from standard
DSDD, they are *not* GCR drives?
What other machines might carry these drives, hook one up to a standard PC controller in a box
running DOS, and then duplicate the disks?
Yes, MS-DOS can handle them. There's a DOS device driver that I can't
think of the name of but it will let you specify the number of sides,
tracks and sectors. It will handle them nicely.
I had one that had the CMI hard drive replaced
with a Seagate ST225. So I
know they will take similar configured Hard Drives. I think they will take
10, 15 and 20 Meg HDs.
This is good to know, ST225s still pop up from time to time...
-dq