rstanton@portia.Stanford.EDU (Richard Stanton) (02/20/91)
My current 40Mb Seagate St-251 has about 500k left, and I keep having to archive or compress files. I'm thinking of increasing the amount of storage. One possibility would be to add another hard disk. I don't know if that is possible, however. My controller is by a firm called "National Computer Limited", which I've never heard of. I have no documentation on it - does anyone know anything about it? The serial number seems to be NDC5426. In case nobody recognises the part, let me describe it. There are two cords running from the controller to my current hard drive, one wide and one less so (you can tell I'm not an engineer, huh?). These is a second set of pins that are the same size as the set that the narrow cord runs from, and the wide cord has an extra plug about half way down, which in theory would probably attach to another disk drive. Does all this definitely mean I can add another? If so, I'm a little confused about the SETUP program. It only refers to drives C and D, though my new drive would in fact be logical drives E and F. Should I ignore this and just treat it as "hard drive 1" and "hard drive 2"? Thanks for any help. By the way, how would adding a Perstor controller instead compare? What's a used ST-251-1 worth? Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-lira.stanford.edu