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From: harris@dg_rtp.UUCP (Mark Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Hard-drives
Message-ID: <1321@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 14:10:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 14:10:11 1987
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In article <9733@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> wchao@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (William Chao <Wchao@topaz.rutgers.edu>) writes:
>
>  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
>ARPA: wchao@blue.rutgers.edu
>UUCP: ..seismo!rutgers!topaz!wchao
>CompuServe: 71460,1670

Although, I don't have a hard drive on the IV, I have heard that the 
Powersoft driver is the way to go.  Wish I had specifics.
I notice that you have a Compuserve ID.  You might post a question there.

I have a question for you.  If I waltz into the local RS computer center
and order a hard drive (any size), what do I need besides the drive?  
Do I need a new controller?

Finally, I get the feeling that there are a lot of people out there in
NETland that have TRS-80s that are waiting for someone else to post.
If so, let's do it.  Anybody have any programs that isn't already on
Compuserve or GEnie?