Subj : Bluetooth To Ethernet
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Apr 21 2026 07:58:00


Hi Ky!

 >   KM> If it was a Seagate MFM drive like an ST225, it used Disk Manager
 >   KM> to lowl-level format the drive, but it was not loaded as a
 >   KM> translation layer.
 > ST225 sounds familiar but than it was a common drive.
 KM> Probably the most common of the consumer-grade MFM drives. If it
 KM> was an aluminum thing the size of an average hardback and a
 KM> whopping 20mb, it was likely an ST225.

That pretty much describes the hard drive of my first XT; nine months 
later I was offered and bought the upgrade: better video card and a 
whopping 40 MB hard drive!  ...Networked the two to combine 'em.  60 MB 
of storage?! I'll never run out of space!  



 KM> I have in my Closet a 20mb IDE drive from 1991 (the first ones
 KM> came on the market in 1989). It still works, if you have an
 KM> old-type controller card to attach it to. It doesn't understand
 KM> the onboard IDE that came along in the late 486 era.

I thought the controller cards had to match the drive?  Or did you just
'short cut' your statement?



 >   KM> Oh yeah, if I run TREE at the root, it chugs for five minutes....
 > I've done 'weird' things like that just because I'm looking for a file
 > FIND seems to be unable to find.  (Probably can, just I'm using the
 > wrong switch options).  Redirect TREE to a file, then search the
 > file....
 KM> Clever trick!

Thanks!  Usually redirect the output to a file on the RAM Drive, which 
is 5 GB.  (Hmm: 5,000 MB -- that's 250x the capcity of my original hard 
drive!!)


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