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- From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Help with Maxtor XT-2190
- In-Reply-To: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz's message of 8 Nov 92 09:19:49 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:40:38 GMT
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- In article <2463312@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
- steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
- > I managed to scrounge a Maxtor XT-2190 from an old VAXstation 2000. I
-
- 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.
-
- Does this mean that you can use any MFM drive in a micro vax? (how
- about a vax station?) If this is true, is there a MAX # of
- heads/cyls?
-
- Thanks,
- -dennis
-