Re: Sider Hard Drive Questions

[agrilk@ultrix.ramapo.edu (Andrew Grilk)]

teke@livy.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Jeff W. Schroeder) writes:

>Hi all:

>I have been looking for the phone number and address of the company that 
>provides tech support and repair of old Sider HD's.  I believe the company's
>name is O.E.M. something.  I the past they have run adds in the back of
>InCider/A+.  If anyone has the address or old copies of the mag around.
>Please post qthe address here.

>Also are there any disk utility progrtams available that will support
>low level formats and other utilities such as optimization and backup of
>Sider Drives other than the utilities that it shipped with?

>The sider uses an Xebec card/protocol.

I don't know who is servicing them now but my old Sider (actually a 
Franklin DataX 10) worked forever until just recently when it dropped 
about 3 inches (maybe 6") on the desk and my 10 megs became 5 megs.

Anyway just recently a friend of mine needed to get his working again 
when he blew up the controler rom and after burning it for him off my old 
card, I also gave him what software I had to reformat it (low level).  I 
still have it up on my system if you need a copy.  So call and apply for 
an account and you can d/l it at your leisure.

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