Re: SIDER HARD DRIVES I've got questions, who has answers?

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On 28 Feb 1997 21:22:07 GMT, buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)
wrote:

>I recently got a quaint SIDER HARD DRIVE by First Class Peripherals.  It 
>works and connects to a IIe.

A Sider (10MB), a B-Sider (??MB with built-in tape drive), or a Sider
][ (20MB)?

>I have no manual ---- anyone got the SIDER manual?

Yep.  It's a big 'un!

>1.  Slot 7, drive 1 has no block-errors, but slot 7, drive 2 has 633 bad 
>blocks.  How do I lock them out?

I think the partitioning program does that.  An alternate approach
would be to get that program I found on some FTP site (probably Ground
or Caltech), which does just that.  If ya can't find it, I can email
it to ya.

>3. How do I install new PRODOS FILES?

Just boot some ProDOS disk in your floppy drive, and use Copy ][+,
System Utilities, Filer, etc. to copy 'em over.

>4.  It has partitions for Prodos, Dos 3.3., CP/M, and Pascal.  But can I 
>just reformat and make everything Prodos???

Nope.  I've heard of a chip/software combo that might, but I've never
actually SEEN it.  The manual says to just make all unwanted
partitions very small.

>5.  What style hard drive is inside --- IDE, SCSI, MFM???   Can I 
>substitute a larger hard drive inside?

You can daisy-chain another Sider to the back of your current Sider.

>Please reply by E-mail also
>Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu 

CC:buggie@unm.edu

BTW:How do ya pronounce "Buggie"?
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