Date   : Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:44:30 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: KeyBoard, Winchester Hard Drive

In article <1113745757.10716.24.camel@...>, Jules
Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> writes

>As for SCSI drives capable of 256 bytes / sector, it'd be interesting
>for someone to do some experimenting. It wouldn't surprise me if none of
>the 3.5" SCSI drives support it though :-(

Many older SCSI drives did, including the Rodime drives used in Acorn's
FileSnore E20S, 40S and 60S (20Mb, 40Mb and 60Mb respectively.)  Note
these are for the FileSnore ExxS - i.e. the ones with an external SCSI
connector.  The original E01 used a 1MHz bus interface.

You'd almost certainly have to format the drive with the mode page set
to use 256-byte sectors before it'll work.  This can be done on a PC
using various utes (Bart's SCSITool comes to mind, see
http://www.nu2.nu/scsi/), or the drive could be connected to an E01S and
formatted.

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