12 Feb
2007
12 Feb
'07
12:49 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Same here, although I tend to concentrate on ST506/412 drives because there's
no (economical) way to emulate them with something else. Small-capacity IDE
and SCSI units are still easy enough to find [1] in my experience, and
worst-case both interfaces are documented well enough that a unit could be
emulated.
[1] Apart from SCSI drives that support 256 byte sectors, or IDE drives that
work natively with 8-bit transfers.
Speaking of
which...does it make sense to start preserving (hoarding)
older, low-capacity hard drives, be they IDE or SCSI, for smaller
machines? They seem to be drying up fast.
It does to me - and I have been. For some time now. :-)