8' drive on PC troubleshooting

Fri Mar 4 22:59:08 CST 2005

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

> Sellam wrote:
> > Has anyone ever actually successfully hooked an 8" drive to a PC
> > controller and gotten it to work?  If so, who is that person?
>
> Yes, Al Kossow and I both have.  We are using a Qume half-height
> drive.  Works fine.

D'oh!

I have a Qume (I think) half-height but it has a funky (6 pins) power
connector. I have another one (maybe that's the Qume model?) that has a
wholly non-standard data connector.  I also have a subsystem with 2 MPI
Model 42 half-height drives.  I tried that but could not get it to work at
all (heads would not engage, though the drives did seem to select).  I
have no data on them so I had to give up.  I'm sure I have some more but I
ran out of time to look.

Will try again tomorrow...

-- 

Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger                http://www.vintage.org

[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]