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From: wchao@topaz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Hard-drives
Message-ID: <9733@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 14:31:37 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.9733
Posted: Sun Mar  1 14:31:37 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 22:31:44 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 31
Keywords: Model 4, Radio Shack 15Meg drive


  I have recently acquired a Radio Shack 15-Meg. hard-drive with
controller. I have some questions for people have similar units...

  1)  Have you hooked-up the 15-Meg unit as the primary and buy
      a non-Radio Shack drive as the secondary, i.e. a 20-Meg
      unit with cables from the primary unit to the secondary.
  2)  In reference to above, how about just ripping out the original
      15-Meg Tandon drive and put in a 20-Meg using original
      software drivers(LDOS 5.1.4 or TRSDOS 6.x)
  3)  Have anyone out there tried the hard-disk driver from Powersoft?
      I want to partition the 15-Meg into 6 or more logical drives
      so that I can put TRSDOS 6.2/LS-DOS6.3 on one-half and
      LDOS 5.1.4/5.3 on the other half.  I do not have the TRSDOS 6.x
      driver but do have LDOS 5.1.4 one.  The problem is LDOS 5.1.4
      allocates too much space for small files(original operating
      system backed-up to the hard-disk requires almost twice the
      amount of space), the minimum allocation is 4K.
      I am trying to decide if I should go ahead and get the TRSDOS 6
      driver from R/S($79) or whole new drivers from Powersoft for
      $99, which will do the above and minimum allocation is 2K.
      The Powersoft's drivers sounds like a good deal since I only
      have to pay $99 for drivers on both LDOS 5.x and TRSDOS 6.x

   Any advice from all you die-hard Model 4 owners??????
      anyone out-there still own a Model 4?????

William Chao
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