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From: d9015t@colman.newcastle.ac.uk (J.P.O'Broin)
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Subject: Re: Installing Hard Disks
Keywords: Hitachi Hard Disk
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.171137.15720@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:11:37 GMT
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*>In article <1991Jan18.151427.23894@cns.umist.ac.uk> vanaards%t7@uk.ac.man.cs writes:
*>
*>  Secondly, what drives can I use with the Archimedes. When looking down
*>lists of Hard disks in the PCW, you generally see ST numbers, and possibly
*>type of drive such as RLL,SCSI,IDE, etc, how do I know which will work with
*>the Archimedes - I've only seen one ST506 !
*>
*>Andrew

IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics
This basically means that the drive has most of the controlling hardware
on board , and hence only needs a simple controller card to talk to it
Ian Copestake software make a controller card (110 +VAT), and you can fit
your own hard disk, or you can get the hard disk off them at the same time.
( 349 +VAT for 40MB).
I've just bought one for my 310 the other day, and I'm very please.

Any questions - mail me direct :
J.P.O'Broin@uk.ac.durham (drop the ' if it causes problems)

Jason.