leo@emerald.jpl.nasa.gov (03/10/90)
I am a Spectre 128 owner thinking about buying an Indus GTS 100(X) drive. Are there any problems using this drive with Spectre?
peters@rodney.enet.dec.com (Don Peters, CTC2-1, DTN 287-3153 23-Mar-1990 1511) (03/24/90)
>I am a Spectre 128 owner thinking about buying an >Indus GTS 100(X) drive. Are there any problems using >this drive with Spectre? I also was interested in getting the GTS-100, but thought I had heard that it didn't work with Spectre. However, just last night I happened to read an article by Dave Small in ST World, titled "When Networks Collide or: GEnie meets Usenet", where he states (under 'Gadgets Rumours & Innuendo'): There's a Future Systems (everyone says "Indus") GTS-100 drive here that now works with GCR. This is the only brand of drive that gave GCR trouble; five minutes with a soldering iron fixes it. This hasn't been done before. We've posted instructions. More on this later. Don Peters
dsmall@well.sf.ca.us (David Small) (03/27/90)
The Indus GTS uses an NEC mechanism that tends to filter out Mac data on the innermost 16 tracks (so , first off, most of the disks should be readable to begin with). This can be cured by shorting inductor L7 and adding a capacitor to change the frequency of the filter to include GCR data. Complete instructions can be posted (or emailed) upon request; let me know. It's around 5 minutes of soldering and 50 cents of capacitor in parts. I've been told that "Indus" (okay, it's Future Systems) has switched to a new NEC mechanism that we'll also have to figure out. (what fun). Anywho, the above applies, I believe, to the 1035 mech; don't try it on an 1037. -- thanks, Dave / Gadgets