Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ames!pacbell!rbdc!mccann
From: mccann@rbdc.UUCP (Mike McCann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBM RT Hard Drives
Keywords: RT Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1008@rbdc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 19:25:32 GMT
References: <4813.25c2dbce@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Organization: Red Barn Data Center, Public Access Unix,  Winston-Salem, NC
Lines: 45

35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:

>At work, I am pulling out 100 megabyte hard drives from IBM rt's to replace
>them with 310 megabyte units.  This means that we have quite a few 100 meg.
>units sitting around that may be declared surplus.  The drive in question is 
>a standard IBM-supplied RT drive - model 0699.  I am told that it may be
>an ESDI device.  My local Atari dealer tells me that I should be able to
>hook up a controller/interface from Berkerley Microsystems.  He tells me
>that the FaST unit from ICD is out of the question.  Does anyone else have
>experience with this, or have any bright ideas.  I surely would love
>to have a free, 20 microsecond 100 meg. hard drive to play with!

If you would care to, you could send a drive to me and I'd check out the

possibility of it working. My address:



Mike McCann

1101-4 Barbara Ann Circle

Winston-Salem, NC 27103



I think you'll have to homebrew it; most any host should work but likely

an SCSI-E


>-- 
>Kevin-john Conway
>...a librarian from hell...

>School of Library and Information Science
>University of Western Ontario
>London Canada
>"...deviants from the norm..."

>"My ideas may be silly, but I'm not.  I'm positively skewed!"

>35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca
>conway@uwovax.bitnet
>kjc@uwovax.bitnet