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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: Adding disk drive capacity
Message-ID: <3095@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 12:42:59 GMT
References: <8905221806.AA02767@bellatrix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: urban@frith.UUCP (Mark Urban-Lurain)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <8905221806.AA02767@bellatrix.cs.Buffalo.EDU> benz@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (David Benz) writes:
>I would like to add more disk drive capacity to my system, but don't
>have the money for a hard drive and controller card.  I have a z100
>with two full height 5.25" 360K drives, running off a z-207
>controller, MSDOS 2.something.  Will any of the following drives work
>in the 100: 3.5" 720K, 3.5" 1.44MB, 5.25" 1.2MB, or more 5.25" 360K
>half heights?  Installation info apreciated also (internal/external
>mounting, seperate power supply needed yes/no, etc..).

I understand that the quad density 5.25 disks will work just
fine from the 8" drive part of the controller.  I believe
that Payload (don't have the address, check a REMark or SEXTANT
or e-mail me and I'll find it) was selling the drives an a 
cable to connect to the controller.

Mark Urban-Lurain
Computer Science Dept.
Michigan State University
urban@cpswh.cps.msu.edu