--- Marko_Mäkelä <msmakela@cc.hut.fi> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > > One thing I wanted to do was to disassemble the "DOS" ROM on the D9060 > > board and locate the drive geometry table. It should then be possible to > > stick in values suitable for other brands of drives, say, for an ST-225. > > Don't the D9060 and the D9090 use the predecessor of SCSI called SASI? Yes. > If yes, wouldn't you need some sort of an SASI to Shugart adapter for the > Seagate drive? It's already in there. The drive mechanism has an ST-506 interface, attached to a (Xebec?) SASI<->ST-506 converter. > > I have *lots* of MFM drives, but not many Tandon <10Mb ones. > > Do any of the drives happen to be in the VAX format? I need a new disk > for my MicroVAX II. :-) Some are. I have a small pile of unformatted RD53-compatible mechanisms that I pulled from junk PC's over the past couple of years. It takes a couple of hours with DEC's diagnostic formatted to prep them, so I haven't bothered. -ethan === Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away. Please send all replies to erd@iname.com _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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