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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rolling your own 60 MB drive with a Seagate ST277N?
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Date: 10 Nov 88 18:54:54 GMT
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Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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Several people have used the ST277N with the Mac, and there were articles
in Computer Shopper this fall regarding using this drive with the Mac using
the "SF&I" format and installation program. Using the drive is fairly
straigtforward - the main considerations are formatting it with an optimal
interleave for the system you have, and deselecting the unit attention feature
if you have an "old" ROM MacPlus. From my limited testing, proper interleave
appears to be 2 for a MacII and 3 or 4 for a MacPlus.

If anyone is interested, I can post the necessary mods to the resources in
SF&I for the 277N. 

 Ken Mitchum KY3B
 Decision Systems Labs
 University of Pittsburgh