Re: identifying sider controller

[W Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Tom Randall wrote:

> He supposedly has some sider hard drives among many other things.
> My question is this, can someone give me a description of the controller
> card for these things?  What kind of plug does it have for the interface
> interface cable, and if there is more than one card there, what is the best
>
> best way to match it up with the right drive?
>

Maybe there's a former Sider dealer or tech watching that could give the
definative answer. But here's what little I know. I believe all the later
cards had Xebec on the component side, however the earlier ones did not.
There should be a 50 pin connector with one of the middle pins cut off.
There may be a cable attatched to that connector with either a DB 25 or
a DB37 plug. The card should have an eprom, 16 or 17 chips and a
whole lot of resistors at the connector end. There may be other cards I'm
not aware of.

>
> Can someone give me an idea of how these disks would be labeled?

The disks I have all have either Sider, First Class Periferals or Xebec
on the label. Some disks were 5.25, some were 3.5 inch.

     Wayne