14 Dec
2002
14 Dec
'02
5:51 p.m.
The rev 4 service disk will format the old 20 MB MFM Micropolis drives, and I think I have found a source of some good used ones, but I just haven't had a chance to pick them up. Hope to do that in January and then I might have some spares. If you ask some older techies, they might have these drives kicking around. I am also going to experiment with some early MAC SCSI drives - they are 20 MB as well... The revision 4 software won't be able to format or control a standard SCSI drive, including those MACs. Its all setup to only understand how to operate the WD1006 and Adaptec 4000/5000 boards, neither of which are "standard" SCSI.
We all just need to buy SCSI drives with the V6 upgrade from Shy. Screw these MFM drives.