Date   : Sat, 19 Feb 2000 11:28:24 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Regarding BBC Harddisks

In article <20000219102636.16948.qmail@...>, Robbie Harrison
<bbcmaster128@...> writes
>
>I bought a 20meg Acorn Winchester not long ago but it was very expensive, 
>about £90. It plugs in the 1MHz bus and uses the ADFS, I don't know anyone 
>who is selling one though. 

I built my own a few years ago.  There was a stall at a radio rally
selling the Adaptec SCSI-to-ST506 converter boards for a couple of quid
(I don't think they knew what they were) and I managed to lay hands on a
Watford version of the Acorn 1MHz-to-SCSI adapter for free.  Made my own
cables and built it all into a dual disc drive case with integral PSU
and a 20Mb Miniscribe MFM drive.  Worked a treat, but I found the extra
memory that ADFS takes on a model B (it raises PAGE from &1900 to &1D00)
a pain when running software.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson
mike@...