barton@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Barton Fisk) (09/02/88)
Forgive my ignorance, but I was just informed by NCR's PC support line that the controller board in my NCR pc8 would only support drives with a ST506 interface, and that ST412 would not work. My question is: What is the difference between ST412 and St506? Do these people know what they are talking about? Also, I would like to hear from any NCR PC users out there about problems you are having, or have had. In particular, I would be interested in finding others running some *nix on an NCR pc. I know there are some incompatibilities with their machines, and would be interested in any others findings. Barton A. Fisk uucp: killer!barton Barton A. Fisk & Co., Inc. P.O. Box 1781 Lake Charles, La. 70602 (318) 439-5984 -------------------------------------------------------- +++++++ Can anything good come out of Louisiana? ++++++ --------------------------------------------------------
plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) (09/06/88)
In article <5389@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Barton Fisk writes: >My question is: What is the difference between ST412 and St506? The 506 was a 6 mb unformatted drive (5 formatted), the 412 was 12 mb (10) >Do these people know what they are talking about? I'd guess not - the drives have the same interface, and besides, no one in their right mind uses a 5Mb hard drive any more :-) >Barton A. Fisk uucp: killer!barton -John Plocher