Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:37:21 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

In article <1089021984.15504.37.camel@...>, Jules
Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> writes

>For starters, did Acorn ever sell Winchester units with SCSI drives?

Yes.  The Stacking FileStore E01S used a SCSI drive.  (The standard E01
used a 1MHz bus with the Adaptec SASI-MFM bridge board.)

>As ST506 drives have no 'get geometry' command, whatever does the
>formatting is going to have to set up the Adaptec board's drive
>parameters somehow.

The bridge board stores the geometry info in a spare track on the hard
drive itself, and this is used when the host issues a Get Identity
command.

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