2 Jun
2001
2 Jun
'01
8:57 a.m.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Likely, but you must be sure that it has at least 4 heads and 153
cylinders. The cylinder part is no problem - probably nothing available
today would have less :) Another factor to consider is that the ST-506
did not have buffered seek IIRC. That is not likely to be a concern
either, but if you were going from a modern controller to the 506 it
might be a problem.
- don
Ah, I see.
It's some whacko custom thingie. Didn't the Lisa originally
use some kind of ProFile-ish thing (custom interface, custom drive
electronix, etc.).
I opened up my 5meg Profile hard disk finally and found that
it has a ST-506 inside of it coupled to a couple of Apple coverter
cards. Most of the case of those Profiles is taken up by the PSU.
At least that bodes well for eventually getting it running again if
the drive itself appears to be fairly normal. Without bothering the
drive geometry settings, if there are any, wouldn't any MFM drive
attached to this setup then appear to the system to be the 506? Jeff
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