Date   : Sat, 21 Apr 1990 03:53:35 GMT
From   : van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!calgary!ccu!shad04@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Fandrich)
Subject: ST506 (was Re: Cromemco WDI-II HDC Compatibility)

In article <6846@orca.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
>[]
>
>   "the ST506 is a 5meg unbuffered seek segate HD."
>
>Perhaps, but the term ST506 has also become associated with a
>particular design of hard disk interface controller.  For example, in
>my Tektronix 6130 workstation, the motherboard includes an "ST506
>controller" which talks to a Maxtor 80MB disk drive.

Are you sure that's not really an ST412 controller (=ST506 with buffered
seeks)?  If we're going to be sticklers with part numbers, we might as well
go all the way! :-)

>>> Dan

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