RFM@psuvm.psu.edu (04/24/91)
One of my students has a Tandy TX. She wants to know if she can put a Seagate 20-meg hard drive in that box -- an ST225; I think she has access to a WD 8-bit controller card as well. Can this bedone? Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg
bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) (04/25/91)
In article <91113.230452RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >One of my students has a Tandy TX. She wants to know if she can put a Seagate >20-meg hard drive in that box -- an ST225; I think she has access to a >WD 8-bit controller card as well. Can this bedone? Substitute 30 meg for 20 meg and you have my exact configuration. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM C: The language that combines the power of assembly language with the flexibility of assembly language.
jackw@nstar.rn.com (Jack Wiggins) (04/26/91)
RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > One of my students has a Tandy TX. She wants to know if she can put a Seagate > 20-meg hard drive in that box -- an ST225; I think she has access to a > WD 8-bit controller card as well. Can this bedone? > Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg Do you mean the 1000TX? Yes, it's very simple to do. Just plug in the controler and mount the drive in a floppy bay. Make sure you set The bank of of 4 switches so that #2 is OFF. This'll make your 1000TX run the hard drive from IRQ5 instead of Tandy's wonderful choice of IRQ2. One caution: The power supply is not made to carry more than 1 hard drive. Don't accept any offers from Tandy to "reset" the power supply so that it will unless you like the smell of burning drive motors. -- Jack Wiggins NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 internet: jackw@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!jackw 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---