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Re: UniDOS

In article <1994Jun26.194534.54788@pro-haven.cts.com>,
Charles Claypoole <charlesc@pro-haven.cts.com> wrote:
>%I was the owner of one of the CT-20c HD for the //c and called about 2 years
>%ago about upgrading it (the company that took over the Chinook HDs) and they
>%said they only sold the 65M HD for the //c.  I never upgraded but that was the
>%last info I heard on the size of the Chinook (//c) hard drives.
>%
>
>        Well, yeah thats what the manual says.   It states there is a Ct-40C;
>ct-85c; and a ct-100c.   the one I have works pretty good.  I dont know what
>I would do without it now that I have  it.  

Didja ever take the drive apart? I had to when the power supply went. What you
find inside is a regular ol' Conner 20 mb SCSI drive mech. It's connected to
a great big PC board that does the conversion from protocol converter to SCSI.
I'd just bet that you could swap in any 3.5" low profile SCSI drive you wanted
in place of the one there.

I recall that Chinook had a deal where they would "downgrade" the drive to SCSI
for $50. Oh boy, pay them to take out the proprietary hardware that made the
thing cost so much and have them keep it and give you back a plain old SCSI
drive.
--
Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
                                                                  -Al Bundy