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From: dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sider slider
Summary: Actually...an oldy
Message-ID: <11797@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 15:54:17 GMT
References: <8907200206.aa02661@ADM.BRL.MIL> <3445@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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In article <3445@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele) writes:
> In article <8907200206.aa02661@ADM.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) writes:
> >after 5 years of 24hours/day use? (BBS hard drive)....
> >Never seems to work just right though.
> 
> 	...old Sider drives use SASI format...
> 	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

Well, I recently put together a home-made SCSI drive and in the process took
my old (1986) Sider 10 Meg aprt to clean it up and see what was in it...  Well,
needless to say, I couldn't tell what kind of drive it was... It wasn't an
ST-506 and if it was, it didn't use standard cables & connectors.  The drive 
I ended up with was an ST506 to Adaptec 4000 to Apple SCSI Rev.B .  Had to
format it on a MAC, but once I did that, its been working pretty good for the
past month or two. (it is also a 24 hour bbs).

Later - Dan   !att!drutx!dvac