mccann@rbdc.UUCP (Mike McCann) (02/11/90)
35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: >At work, I am pulling out 100 megabyte hard drives from IBM rt's to replace >them with 310 megabyte units. This means that we have quite a few 100 meg. >units sitting around that may be declared surplus. The drive in question is >a standard IBM-supplied RT drive - model 0699. I am told that it may be >an ESDI device. My local Atari dealer tells me that I should be able to >hook up a controller/interface from Berkerley Microsystems. He tells me >that the FaST unit from ICD is out of the question. Does anyone else have >experience with this, or have any bright ideas. I surely would love >to have a free, 20 microsecond 100 meg. hard drive to play with! If you would care to, you could send a drive to me and I'd check out the possibility of it working. My address: Mike McCann 1101-4 Barbara Ann Circle Winston-Salem, NC 27103 I think you'll have to homebrew it; most any host should work but likely an SCSI-E >-- >Kevin-john Conway >...a librarian from hell... >School of Library and Information Science >University of Western Ontario >London Canada >"...deviants from the norm..." >"My ideas may be silly, but I'm not. I'm positively skewed!" >35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca >conway@uwovax.bitnet >kjc@uwovax.bitnet