[vcf-midatlantic] Wanted: MFM hard drive
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Fri Jan 11 19:01:39 EST 2019
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:51:14AM -0500, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> I thought you have to get a paired Drive / Controller... I could be mistaken- but i thought you can just swap the drives around between controllers...
>>
>
> The paired is only if you want to recover the original contents of the drive.
> If you are going to low level format they are reasonable interchangeable.
> Some systems only can format disks to certain known sizes but larger
> disks may be useable at reduced capacity. Some systems the low level format
> programs aren't available. Other systems only want to work with specific
> drives.
This is for a Tandy 6000 that I'm donating to the LSSM. I have a ST-4096
that I believe is still working, but it requires a cable pin to be masked off
because of the 8-head limitation (the 4096 has 9 heads) and I'm reluctant to
install it it.
I'll format whichever drive I install and load up Xenix 3.2.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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