SMD Drive & AT&T SysV/386

[John R. Levine]

In article <1991Jan14.180127.11239 at irscscm.UUCP> you write:
>I've got a 500M SMD drive ... I'd heard of one vendor called Interphase
>located in Dallas that makes a SMD controller for PCs, ...

The most cost effective thing to do may be to sell off the SMD disk to
someone who has a controller for some other machine and buy an ESDI or SCSI
disk.  The Interphase controller is the only SMD PC controller I've seen, and
I've been looking on and off for over five years.

I've used the that controller under DOS, and it does indeed work (it made a
Fujitsu Eagle 600MB drive appear as DOS drives D: through O:.)  But it costs
over $1,000.  For that price, you can buy 300MB of nice new SCSI or ESDI disk
which is smaller and takes less power than your SMD disk and works with a
normal cheap PC controller.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl