Subject: Re: Sider Info Wanted
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:14:27 -0700
From: Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>
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What you have is a 10mb Sider hard drive. I believe Siders came in sizes
from 10 to 90mb and I think stopped selling the drives in 1990. Some late
Siders were SCSI but almost all were SASI. SASI was similar to SCSI but
not quite the same. Of the SCSI cards, I believe the only one that'll
read  these drives is the RamFast and then termination power must be off
or it'll fry the drive. The drives came with their own "proprietary"
interface card, not all but a good portion of the cards had "Xebec" silk
screened on them.. They're a slow drive but can contain a mixture of ,Dos
3.3, ProDOS, CP/M and Pascal partitions.

Paul Grammens wrote:

> I just picked up a "Sider" external hard disk at a junk store. It has a
> db-37 cable attached, and what looks like a terminator. Is it SCSI? Any
> info on what kind of interface card it takes? About all I could find on
> the Sider is that it was for the Apple II. This one's a 9710H, has a
> Xebec hard disk inside. TIA for any info on this.
> -Paul