vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) (03/30/91)
I recently began a search for facts about the hard drives in our
Apollo DN300 shoeboxes. After much search I am reporting back on
what (little) I have learned.
First off the hard drive in my shoebox is a Priam 7050-41. As many of
you know Priam is not quite what it used to be and it turns out that a
company called Sequel (sp?) +1.408.987.1533 now handles the drives.
Joe Grove in technical support told me the following:
Drive Interface
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7050-11 Priam Proprietary
7050-21 SMD
7050-41 ANSI X3.101
Kathy in Sales said she would sell me the interface board to change my
7050-41 to a 7050-21 for $500 and she seemed willing to deal (maybe
$250). [if for some reason I was dieing for a small SMD drive the
Minicomputer exchange sells an unused 84MB drive for $125].
Closure:
1) Unless it turns out that ANSI X3.101 to anything-useful converters
these drives are probably boat anchors.
2) The rumor that the drives are ST-506 compatable is unfortunately
almost certainly wrong.
3) Someone on the net sent me a list of the pin outs for the drive
which he obtained from some Apollo literature. The pin outs did not
exactly match the pin outs in the ANSI X3.101 literature. (Why? I dont
know).
Thats all I know.
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