30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
1:30 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 6/30/05, Mike Loewen <mloewen at
cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
Good question: I don't have the Sider drive itself, just the
controller. Back in the 8-bit days I couldn't afford a hard drive, so I
never had the chance to play with one on an 8-bit machine.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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I have a SASI controller for an Apple II
Sider hard drive, and have
found clues on the web that say older SCSI drives like the Seagate ST-225N
should work with it. Does that sound reasonable? What other make/model
SCSI drives would be likely to work?
Hmm... interesting... an ST225N might be something to try with the
D90x0, but one important question... does your Sider use 512-byte
blocks or 256-byte blocks? I've reformatted odd-sized blocks (528?)
to 512, but never to 256 bytes... was there a way of doing that back
in the old days? (I was playing with DEC hardware and kinda missed out
on hanging early hard drives on 8-bit micros)