Talk:ST-506
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[edit] capacity
What was the head/track/sector layout of the ST506? Rpresser 15:06, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- 153 tracks per surface
- 4 surfaces (heads) per drive
- 10,416 bytes per track unformatted
- typically formatted with 32 sectors per track and 256 bytes per sector.
- The ST506 was a "dumb" interface so the user capacity depended upon the controller to which it was attached. The above comes from the ST506 Service Manual[1], May 1982Tom94022 21:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
[edit] Seagate or Shugart?
The ST506 and ST412 manuals that I have looked at (through bitsavers) indicate that the drives were Seagate.
It looks to me that Shugart drives were numbered with SA, and Seagate with ST, further evidence for Seagate.
I don't know when the change was made, though.
Gah4 (talk) 21:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
- Shugart Associates [f. 1973], later Shugart Corporation is a different company than Seagate Technology originally Shugart Technology [f. 1979]. Alan Shugart was a founder of both. Tom94022 (talk) 17:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but which company is responsible for the ST506 and ST412?
Gah4 (talk) 04:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
- Seagate Technology Tom94022 (talk) 06:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
