Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-22 Thread Shiresoft
Uh, no. Interfacing to an HDA (especially a modern one) is not for the faint of heart. The drive controller is usually a custom (to the drive family) ASIC. In many cases the firmware and drive parameters are stored on the drive media itself. The read/write amplifiers are usually tuned to the

Re: CDC Sabre 8" SMD blues

2016-01-29 Thread Shiresoft
Yea, that's unfortunately the problem for any disks for the Symbolics. :-( TTFN - Guy > On Jan 29, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > only problem would be formatting them for the Symbolics.. > >> On 1/28/16 10:19 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: >> >> I just realized, that I have 2 8" SMD drives