[comp.sys.acorn] Hard drives

elli@kopasker.is (Erlendur Konradsson) (03/26/91)

  Can anyone tell me if I can use a SEAGATE ST151 MFM or MK134 MFM hard
drive with the ST506 controller on the Archimedes? Is the drive compatible
if it is MFM or has it to be ST506 also?

cca@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Clive Carmock) (03/30/91)

I have used an ST251-1 drive on an Archimedes using the Acorn
hard disk podule.

As far as I know most MFM drives DO use the ST506 type interface -
basically if the drive has a 20way & a 34 way connector you're
OK.

Seagate drives seem good - fast & quiet.  I have just looked
in a Seagate catalogue and both the ST151 & ST251-1 are designed
to work with an ST412 controller - which is similar to the
ST506 type controller

So I really don't think you'll have any problem with the ST151, which
is almost the 3.5" version of the ST251-1, which is 5.25" half height.



Clive Carmock

(cca@dcs.exeter.ac.uk  or  expya.UUCP)