Date   : Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:58:12 +0100
From   : Andrew Benham <adsb@...>
Subject: Re: Viglen Winnie / Miniscribe 3438

Joel Rowbottom wrote:

> A brief question for those more intelligent than me: will "just any" 
> ST506 drive work, or does it need to be a particular model? If so, is 
> there a list anywhere of drives which are known workers please?

Essentially any drive will work, but the usual problem is telling the
SCSI<->ST506 bridge board the size of the disk.
If you have an Adaptec ACB4000 then it's easy - Acorn's SuperForm stores
the disk size in a hidden area of the drive.
If you have a different controller, then you'll probably need a
different way to do it.  I used to use a Xebec controller and had to
modify the firmware EPROM to hard-code the disk size.

When I say disk size, I really mean disk geometry
(cylinders/heads/sectors).


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