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- Subject: Re: Help with Maxtor XT-2190
- Message-ID: <2463312@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 8 Nov 92 09:19:49 GMT
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- steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
- > I managed to scrounge a Maxtor XT-2190 from an old VAXstation 2000. I
- > would like to attach this disk to my SGI 4D/35. Unfortunately I have no documentation on this disk, so I would appreciate it if anyone could help.
- >
- > The disk does not appear to have the standard 50 pin SCSI connections. Instead
- > there is a 34pin connection and a 20pin connection (which resembles ESDI
- > connections) on the disk. There were some elctronics on the VAX station motherboard which interfaced this disk to the SCSI bus.
- >
- > There are also some jumpers which may or may not need adjusting (to select the
- > SCSI id or to add/remove termination.)
-
- Oh! Oh! Send it to me!
-
- It's not a SCSI disk. It's an ST506 interface drive, ie stock MFM, just
- like the cheaparse 20MB MFM drives found in PCs until fairly recently, only
- bigger.
-
- It's no use for your SGI machine.
-
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