Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!nigel
From: nigel@isgtec.UUCP (Nigel Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: ready only hard drive
Keywords: tandy is stoopid?
Message-ID: <739@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 03:01:55 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ont.
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I'm posting this for a friend who has no net access:
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I moved a hard disk and its controller from an old tandy 1000 to a
tandy 1000SL. 
All seemed well at first;  I could boot 
from it, and look at or run anything that was already there,
but any attempt to write to the disk resulted in a 1 min pause,
then the message "not ready error writing drive".

The SL has a rom drive (normally drive c) and the cpu is an 8086.
The drive is a miniscribe 3650 on a western digital mfm xt controller.


thanks - Nigel