Evotek Winchester Harddisk

[Tom Gardner]

The Evotek drive initially used the notoriously unreliable Ampex Alar plated media; whether they ever upgraded to sputtered media is uncertain.  It probably should be avoided.

I would look for an replacement drive using oxide media.  The nice thing about oxide media is it came pre-corroded so that's one thing not to worry about in a 35 year old drive

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:cclist at sydex.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 11:13 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

On 12/05/2015 10:36 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone ever heard of Evotek ET-5800 series Winchester harddisks?
> I wonder which interface they have. I'm looking for a replacement of a 
> CDC FINCH 9410 and wonder if they would be a possible replacement.
>
> ET-5800: http://www.ebay.de/itm/252174622907
>
> CDC-FINCH:
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/discs/brochures/CDC_9410_Finch_Brochure_M
> ar81.pdf

The Evotek 5000 series is a bog-standard ST-506/ST-412 "MFM" interface. 
  OEM manual is on Manx:

http://manx.classiccmp.org/mirror/harte/Evotek/ET-5000%20Family%20OEM%20Manual.pdf

Back in 1983 I had an opportunity to play with one.  Pretty interesting, but very expensive, as I recall--and not terribly reliable.

--Chuck