🚀 go-pugleaf

If anyone's considering buying a Fujitsu 520M internal hard drive for their
NeXTstation, it'll work just fine.

Hard Drives International has 'em for $999, Falcon has 'em for $1095, and
Andataco has 'em for.. higher than that.  I forget the exact price.

It's a 3.5" *half* height but it fits with about 1/4" to spare inside (comes
up to be level with the floppy drive).  The mounting bracket fits perfectly,
much to my delight.  It's easiest to disconnect the SCSI cable and power
supply from the motherboard, since the drive "tilts" to the right to come
off.  Obviously, if you take the computer apart, there goes the warranty, and
you should NOT do this if you aren't sure of what you're doing.  I take no
responsibility for damaged equipment.

It's a 2624F drive.  The only things you need to do are put the supplied
terminator in (the funny lookin' grey chip, it's obvious where it goes), and
take out some jumper shunts to make it SCSI ID 1 (jumper group CHN7, pins 1-2
need to be shorted as well as 7-8 so it won't be write protected).

It Just Works.  Rory Bolt's formatter app for old Fujitsu's works just fine.
It gives 516368 K after formatting, 464731 useable for mortal users.  Access
times are in the 12-17ms range.  It's noticeably faster than my old Fujitsu
2261.  Disk's 'read' utility reports > 730K/s transfer rates.

And it's pretty quiet (DAMN quiet compared to the "seeking with authority"
Fujitsu 2261, as Louis Mamakos so aptly put it).
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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Jenkinson's Law:
	It won't work.