deathshadow
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Back in the day running LDOS 5.1.4 on my Model III I used to have a device that was basically three 80 track 5.25" floppy drives in a single full height bay. What made it unique was it only had one floppy connector on the back and shared the bay door and drive spindle for all three... To the system it looked like a 240 track drive giving a capacity of about 2 megabytes.
Was fun to watch with the case off as internally it used the track step indicator to switch between which disk was in use dividing the track count by three.
For the life of me I can't remember what it was called. I was thinking something like that might be handy for a lot of old retrocomputers where there is no easy way to add a hard drive interface... just give it a pretend 240 track floppy. Could even work on a tandy or PCjr, you just set up the disk with driveparm.
Does anyone else remember a device like that? What brought it to mind was a buddy of mine is trying to fix a corrupted server at work, only to find out his predecessor set it up in RAID 3. Lose one disk... you're pretty well shtupped.
Was fun to watch with the case off as internally it used the track step indicator to switch between which disk was in use dividing the track count by three.
For the life of me I can't remember what it was called. I was thinking something like that might be handy for a lot of old retrocomputers where there is no easy way to add a hard drive interface... just give it a pretend 240 track floppy. Could even work on a tandy or PCjr, you just set up the disk with driveparm.
Does anyone else remember a device like that? What brought it to mind was a buddy of mine is trying to fix a corrupted server at work, only to find out his predecessor set it up in RAID 3. Lose one disk... you're pretty well shtupped.