weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) (10/31/87)
Perhaps those of you who are more hardware-oriented can help me with this one: I want to get a hard drive for my ST, but am frugal and do not want to spend megabucks on a turnkey system. So, I have been saving my pennies for the Berkeley Boards (ST DMA to SCSI to ST506 converter boards) and keeping my eyes open for drive mechanisms. Well, I finally have found the drive mechanism, or so I hope. I have come into the guardianship :-) of two Corvus OMNINET disk servers. I could care less about the related hard ware, but inside these two disk servers lie two 20Mb drive mechanisms. They do not appear to be made by Corvus but by a company called IMI (or Internat'l Memories, Inc.) The model number on this is 5018H. Obviously I would *really* like to have 40Mb of hard drive, but am wondering if it will work or not. I do, of course, plan to try and get a hold of IMI, but a few questions: If they do not know if it is ST506 compatible, and I attempt to "go it on my own" after purchasing the Berkeley Boards, which is more apt to happen: will I fry the boards or the drive (I'd rather fry the drive; its more expendable.) Is there any board that converts from ST DMA to 5018H? :-) Thanks for any and all responses. Post to the net if you think others might benefit, or e-mail if not. Cheers, -- Andrew Weaver, The Ohio State University College of Business UUCP: ...!cbosgd!cis.ohio-state.edu!weaver ARPA: weaver@ohio-state.arpa "Where's the Domino's coupon?" -- me
ANKH@cup.portal.com (11/06/87)
Andrew: Call the I.C.D. company bbs at 1-815-968-2229. They are in Chicago
area. They make and sell hard drives, controllers, cables,host adapters and
whatever. I'm sure they'll know right off if you can use what you have.
Seeya, Adrian Morelrobertl@bucsb.UUCP (Robert LaFerla) (11/19/87)
In article <854@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) writes: > THIS POSTING IS TOTALLY UNRELATED TO THE SUBJECT! Sorry about this, but I'm new to Usenet and I'm not sure how to post without doing a followup. Well, anyways I'd like to know the name of the moderator of this group. My friend has an Atari ST and would like to be on the mailing list (he doesn't have access to Usenet but I've heard he can have postings sent to his account. His account is: mkentley@wpi (Worcester Polytechnical Institute) in Massachusetts. He'd like to be added to: comp.sys.atari.st comp.sources.atari.st and comp.binaries.atari.st Thanks.