Date   : Thu, 19 Apr 1990 02:08:55 GMT
From   : unmvax!ariel!carina.unm.edu!cs2591aq@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (aNk1ez)
Subject: Cromemco WDI-II HDC Compatibility

In article <55002@bbn.COM> gonzalez@vax.bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) writes:
>So, has anyone had experience with the WDI-II?  Has anyone succeeded in
>using it with drives that are still available?  If not, does anyone have
>a line on an ST506, ESDI, or (unlikely) SCSI controller for S-100?

You've got to be either mistaken or messed up. the ST506 is a 5meg unbuffered
seek segate HD... i keep hearing people say "Thats a 80meg" and i've SEEN 
St506's run, i have documentation for 506's and everything. ugh. a 5 meg drive.
what a sick thought. if you want 80megs, try part number ST4096 next time.
80.2 mb MFM, 96mb RLL. tis what my Leviathan has attached to it.

grr... if its one thing i'm a stickler for is correct part numbers. anyways,

if you REALLY wanna hook up a 506, tho i don't think you want to, all hard
drive 
controllers have support for the 506. 
ST506 4 heads, 153 cylinders, 128 b Read/write comp., 128 b Write Precomp.
ST4096 9 heads, 1024 cylinders, 1024 b RWC, 0 Write Precomp.

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