A5060 Harddisk PC-Controller
An MFM/ST412/ST506 HDD controller, probably intended for an Amiga with a Bridgeboard installed.
Came with a 20MB HDD from factory which was partitioned into two 10MB partitions, one was Amiga formatted, the other one was MS-DOS formatted.
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION
- WDXT-GEN
- Data bus: 8-bit, PC/XT
- Size: Half-length, full-height card
- Hard drives supported: Two MFM ST506/412 drives
- Floppy drives supported: None
- Maximum heads/cyl.: 8 heads and 1024 cylinders
Connections:
|
34-pin control cable connector-hard drive |
J1 |
|
20-pin data cable connector-drive 0 |
J2 |
|
20-pin data cable connector-drive 1 |
J3 |
Hard drive configuration:
|
Feature# |
Form. Cap. |
Heads |
Cylinders |
Precomp |
RWC |
StepRate |
|
F300/F320 |
21MB |
4 |
615 |
307 |
None |
30 m sec |
|
F335 |
32MB |
5 |
733 |
367 |
None |
18 m sec |
|
F336 |
32MB |
6 |
640 |
210 |
210 |
18 m sec |
|
F340 |
42MB |
6 |
820 |
410 |
None |
18 m sec |
Technical notes:
|
This controller has no jumpers. The controller feature number determines the boards formatted capacity. See the chart above for feature number specifications. This controller has a built-in low-level format program. Run the DEBUG utility supplied with DOS and at the prompt enter: G=C800:5. |
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