RE: CMD HD mechanism failure?

Now if I could only find a mount for the SCSI2SD card in the CMD HD-100.  The CMD HD-100 is only 5 inches (12.5 cm) across. 

 

/Raj

 

From: Justin Cordesman <shadow_at_darksideresearch.com> 
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2021 6:00 PM
To: cbm-hackers_at_musoftware.de
Subject: Re: CMD HD mechanism failure?

 

Two things:

 

1. Try turning the drive upside down if you need to recover anything from it. Sometimes if they are having trouble getting to target speed switching the load to the top bearing gets you there.

 

2. https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm

 

I use one on my Powermac 9600 since it sits on the edge with the last support for the 400k floppies but has modern Ethernet support. There are newer ones since mine with higher performance. Use good media, genuine sandisk extreme or the like (there are a LOT of forgeries of SD and microSD media so shop carefully). Write endurance and I/O performance, especially random writes, is very different as you go up the quality scale.

Justin