Date   : Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:00:29 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: Viglen Winnie / Miniscribe 3438

At 22:58 11/07/2006, Andrew Benham 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.

It's an ACB4000 :)

Cheers


jx


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