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From: mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sider slider
Message-ID: <3445@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 89 16:56:20 GMT
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Reply-To: mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele)
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In article <8907200206.aa02661@ADM.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) writes:
>My Sider is an old non SCSI drive.  Of course its used as a heavy Paper-
>weight, as it has some errors on the drive.  But what would you expect
>after 5 years of 24hours/day use? (BBS hard drive).  I still try to
>re-format it once a month, just to see if the Ions are positive.  Never
>seems to work just right though.
>
>Any sugestions?

	Get a BIG Magnet :-)

	On a more serious note I thought I might explain that old Sider
	drives use SASI format(the precursor to SCSI I believe).  We took
	apart an old 20 meg and found a ST-506 inside! So one solution
	might be to pull your drive apart and see what's at the base....you
	might be able to find an old IBM replacement.

						Michael Steele
						mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu
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