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steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
> I managed to scrounge a  Maxtor XT-2190 from an old VAXstation 2000.  I
> would like to attach this disk to my SGI 4D/35. Unfortunately I have no documentation on this disk, so I would appreciate it if anyone could help.
> 
> The disk does not appear to have the standard 50 pin SCSI connections.  Instead
> there is a 34pin connection and a 20pin connection (which resembles ESDI
> connections) on the disk.  There were some elctronics on the VAX station motherboard which interfaced this disk to the SCSI bus.
> 
> There are also some jumpers which may or may not need adjusting (to select the
> SCSI id or to add/remove termination.)

Oh!  Oh!  Send it to me!

It's not a SCSI disk.  It's an ST506 interface drive, ie stock MFM, just
like the cheaparse 20MB MFM drives found in PCs until fairly recently, only
bigger.

It's no use for your SGI machine.

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