Anyone here, owning a Xebec Owl and/or its documentation?
The Owl is a SASI-disk-drive from 1984. One could say that it's mostly a
Xebec S1410A mounted on a drive, thus eliminating the ST-506-interface.
The one I had my hands on seems to be a late version, called the Owl II
(20MB instead of 10MB).
Fred Cisin via cctalk:
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> Got an IBM "Advanced Diagnostics" floppy to try?
If you want to do a ll-format, you only need debug:
A>DEBUG
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-I 322 # reads dip-switches (don't think this is needed)
-I 321 # read status
-O 322 0# select the controller
-I 321 # read status
-O 3
Fred Cisin via cctalk:
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> The Seagates were commodity drives, used in almost everything.
> Number is approximately the unformatted capacity.
> ST506 was 5MB formatted (305 Cyl x 2 heads) ;
The ST-506 had 2 platters, 4 heads. Mechanically the ST-506 and the
ST-412 are mostly the same. The trac
