Date   : Thu, 19 Apr 1990 11:52:44 EST
From   : Kevin J. Cummings <CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM>
Subject: Cromemco WDI-II HDC Compatibility

In article <2359@ariel.unm.edu> unmvax!ariel!carina.unm.edu!cs2591aq@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
 (aNk1ez) writes:
>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,

OK, FLAME -ON

Jim is asking about a disk controller that uses the ST-506 INTERFACE, not about
an ST-506 disk drive!  You may be a stickler for correct part numbers, but
when you decide to flame someone, PLEASE understand what that person is
talking about.  There are 4 common disk drive interfaces today, ESDI, IDE,
SCSI,
and ST-506 (also called MFM, also called ST412, etc, etc, etc).  My ST-506
controller talks very nicely to any ST-506 interface drive including a ST4096
(if I chose to run one!).  I have had Shugart 603's on it, and am currently
running a Miniscribe 3460 on it (Can you say 40MB, sure you can!).

ER! FLAME -OFF

BTW Jim, I was lucky enough to find a Morrow HDC/DMA years ago for a good
price.
Good luck finding a good controller, they're becoming very scarce.

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