Date   : Fri, 01 Feb 1991 00:45:03 GMT
From   : mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!simasd!simasd!pnet07!donm@ucsd.edu (Don Maslin)
Subject: can I use this with my Kaypro 10?

kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
>
>   Greetings. I got some custom hard drives for peanuts. When
>   I took them apart (a nice enclosure with a PS for 2 HH 
>   Hard drives and a fan) I found:
>   
>   1 custom board (Anyone hear of 8800 buss?)
>     - Nothing interesting. It has one 50 pin connector and
>       out comes another 50 pin connector that hooks with (below)
>
>   1 Xebec (FAB 10427 Rev 2 [(A)MLI-6] ASSY 104526) controller board
>     - This has a 50-pin input (will this work with my K10's
>       ribbon cable that connects the motherboard with the WD
>       controller?) Out comes a 34-pin drive control and 20-pin
>       data cables (ST-506)
>
No, the only HD controllers that will work directly with the K10 are the two
variants of the WD-1002-xxx, where xxx is either 05 or HDO.  They are the same
HD controller, but the 05 version also has a floppy controller added in.

I believe - but I'm not absolutely sure - that the Xebec is an SCSI input
controller.

>   1 ST-406 Hard drive. Looks old - 1982ish... It's a FH 5 1/4".
>
It's a 5 mb drive.


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