6 Sep
2012
6 Sep
'12
1:19 p.m.
The sad part is I could very much -use- a ST225 in
good condition right
now (...and I suspect I'm not the /only/ one). As it is, I'll be replacing
Indeed, I could...
a nearly dead ST225 drive and its controller with an
XT-IDE and a
CompactFlash card once I get board assembled. It might not be "original"
but it'll likely far outlast the failing ST225.
That's a perfectluy good soltuion _if the drive is in a PC/XT or
similar). It's no good (AFAIK) if the drive is in some other machine
which happens to have an ST412-compatible drive interface (looking around
me, I see a DEC RAinbow, a PRO35, the external hard disk box for my
TRS-80 Model 4, a Xerox Daybreak, a PERQ, a couple of HP drive units, etc
all of which fall into that category...)
-tony