caprio@ttidcb.UUCP (Don Caprio) (06/10/85)
I recently bought a Shurgart SA604 6.7 meg hard disk for my IBM pc. I now need to purchase a controller and find software to format the drive. The vendor tells me that they have sold 3,500 of these drives so I'm sure someone out there in net land has brought one of these drives up. Any information on formatting, disk controllers, etc would be greatly appreciated. Send all responses to me via direct mail or post to this newsgroup. Thanks in advance Don Caprio Citicorp TTI
faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (06/13/85)
> I recently bought a Shurgart SA604 6.7 meg hard disk for my IBM pc. > I now need to purchase a controller and find software to format the > drive. The vendor tells me that they have sold 3,500 of these drives > > Any information on formatting, disk controllers, etc would be greatly There's an article titled (approximately) "XTing your PC" in PC Tech Journal a few month'sback that has some useful information. Please post information, since I suspect this is a subject of much general interest. -- ....!hplabs!faunt faunt%hplabs@csnet-relay.ARPA HP is not responsible for anything I say here. In fact, what I say here may have been generated by a noisy telephone line.
ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (06/17/85)
You're not the only one that went for this deal. A guy on net.micro.cpm had about the same question. Last December I bought a 15-meg IMI drive for my S-100 system. I use the Western Digital WD1002-SHD (SASI version) to control it. I like the board, but I had a step rate problem (drive was supposed to work at 200us, but was flaky. Works ok at 75us!). Otherwise I have no complaints. The IBM PC version is the WD1002-WX2, I think. As for software, I wrote my own. Western Digital may sell an IBM-compatable rom with their board. If not, and you decide to write your own, I will gladly post my driver. I am quite certain that it would not work with the 'WX2, because my interface board is most likely not IBM compatable (which the WD board is), but may be of some help. (I designed the interface myself) You may be able to buy a subsystem from a vendor without the disk; It probably woudn't be that cheep, though. Good Luck Glen Overby at North Dakota State University UUCP: ...ihnp4!dicomed!ndsuvac!ncoverby