25 Mar
2000
25 Mar
'00
11:33 a.m.
I have a full backup of the drive via COPY. I would
like to graft a
different hard disk onto this machine.
Did you simply do a COPY? Or a COPY/SYS?
I have available in ST506-type is a fujitsu 40mb and a
seagate st4096.
How do connect the second drive? There are connections for a second
Since you've got a RD52, which is a good drive your best bet is to try and
find a 3rd party ESDI controller if you really want to add different Hard
Drives. I'm not even sure that you can munge a non-DEC MFM disk into
working with what you've got. Besides I try to avoid MFM HD's if at all
possible.
How difficult is it to substitute a standard
double-sided floppy mech for
the wierd but nifty-looking floppy drives that are in it now? For those
of you still wondering, it has an RX50-AA double-drive unit that cannot be
formatted by the computer but can be read.
As I recall, you've got either a RQDX1 or RQDX2 drive controller, so you're
pretty much out of luck there.
With the correct revision of RQDX3 it is possible to convert certain Teac
1.2MB Floppy drives into RX33's.
Zane
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