Re: D9060 Hard drive

From: Ted <ejohnson.ed_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:51:47 -0400
Message-ID: <515AFE93.3080403@gmail.com>
I got the bright idea of just bypassing the MFM to SCSI board and 
installing a SCSI drive directly to the DOS board. The cable started 
melting immediately. I have ordered a new cable and hope I did not fry 
the DOS board. I did try plugging in a SCSI connector to connect the 
drive an Winchester2SCSI board. Windows 7  could not recognize it.

On 3/29/2013 11:53 AM, geneb wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Michał Pleban wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Teddy wrote:
>>
>>> I don't understand. It's not a SCSI drive, its a Western Digital MFM 
>>> drive.
>>
>> MFM is the technology used to store data on the physical disk. Typical
>> are MFM (like PC diskettes) or GCR (like Commodore diskettes).
>>
>> SCSI is the interface which the disk uses to communicate with outside
>> world. Typical are SCSI or IDE.
>>
>> So these two are generally unrelated to each other.
>
> I think he's saying that the _interface_ is MFM - 20 pin data cable 
> and a 34 pin(?) control cable as opposed to a 50 pin cable that is 
> typically found on SCSI drives.
>
> g.


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