Drive in 3B1?

[Chris Lewis]

In article <1015 at naucse.UUCP> sbw at naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
>I have a (he thinks) fairly simple question about replacing
>the drive in a 3B1.  I see that Miniscribe has a drive, the
>model 6128, that is ST506/412, 110.1MB(formatted), with 1024
>cylinders and 8 heads.  Can I drop one of these straight into
>my 3B1 (which currently has a 40MB drive)?

The Miniscribe obviously has to have more than 17 sectors per track
which isn't exactly standard ST506.  You'd probably be better off trying
a Maxtor XT1140 (15 heads, 920 cylinders) which formats to slightly
over 120 Mb.  That is of course if a 3b1 supports an additional head
select line (which the original ST506 didn't have).  Many of the BYTE
advertisers list them.  (BTW: XT1140 is 28 ms. avg access)
-- 
Chris Lewis
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