Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!infonode!palmermg
From: palmermg@infonode.ingr.com (Michael G. Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A590 XT-interface
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.035231.3859@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 03:52:31 GMT
References: <1093@tau.sm.luth.se>
Reply-To: palmermg@infonode.UUCP (Michael G. Palmer)
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Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <1093@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
>
>By now I know that the A590 and the 2091 are logically identical apart from
>the "XT-interface" in the A590. But what is it? Is it ST506 or ESDI?
>Or even EDI(?) as I've seen some people call it.
>I need to know, 'cause I would like to buy a larger (preferrably cheap)
>drive to replace the 20MB Epson in my A590. (I find large SCSI:s too
>expensive :-(
>
>I know all about the differences between ESDI, ST506 and SCSI and the
>different types of ST506: MFM, RLL, ARRL and so on, I just need to know
>which type the "XT-drive" in the A590 is!
>
>Also, is it "half-height"? My *guess* is that it's half-height, ESDI, 3.5".
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Michael
>-- 
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