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Path: news.uiowa.edu!uunet!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.tamu.edu!tam2000!jdb8042 From: jdb8042@tam2000.tamu.edu (John Donald Baker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.marketplace,comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Fix a Sider??? Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:06:35 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3rppar$d15@news.tamu.edu> References: <3rho2e$d4e@agate.berkeley.edu> <jesse-1406951333000001@jesse2.gi.alaska.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tam2000.tamu.edu Xref: news.uiowa.edu comp.sys.apple2.marketplace:7530 comp.sys.apple2:89196 In article <jesse-1406951333000001@jesse2.gi.alaska.edu>, Jesse P. Atencio <jesse@dino.gi.alaska.edu> wrote: >In article <3rho2e$d4e@agate.berkeley.edu>, hyolee@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU >(Hyo Yul Lee) wrote: > >> I have a old old Sider 10 harddrive working with my IIGS. >> >> But the HD finally died and will not spin when I turn on the power. >> >> Where can I get a replacement for the Sider? Is it like an IDE >> interface? Maybe MFM? Maybe I can just swap the HD out... > >Problem is that the Sider is actually a SASI mechanism. SASI was a >standard that predated and eventually became SCSI. SASI stands for >Shugart Associates Standard Interface. You cannot find replacement SASI >drives any longer. You are better off scrapping it. I used an old SIDER What no one has grasped yet is that the actual _mechanism_ is an MFM hard disk. The Sider has a hard disk controller board in it that provides the SASI interface to the MFM drive. It's most likely a Xebec S1410. MFM hard disks can be had for cheap. Any drive will do as long as it has _at least_ as many cylinders and heads as the old drive. One caveat, though. You should generally avoid any drive which declares that it is/has "wedge servo" since not many SASI controllers could deal with those drives (the Xebec 1410 being one of them). >case to house a SCSI mechanism. The power supply was useable. John D. Baker ->A TransWarp'802'd Apple //e CardZ180 Z-System nut // Internet: jdb8042@tam2000.tamu.edu, @blkbox.com, jdbaker@taronga.com BBSs: JOHN BAKER on PIC of the Mid-Town [(713) 961-5817] 1:106/31, The Vector Board [(716) 544-1863], Z-Node #45 [(713) 937-8886] http://tam2000.tamu.edu/~jdb8042/