General Micro Systems Puts Mini DDrive II Behind The Wheel - Product Announcement

Computer Technology Review, July, 1999

General Micro Systems announced the Mini DDrive II, the first VMEbus mass storage card to feature two IDE hard drives and an LS-120 super floppy. The new card allows integrators to add mirrored hard disks and super floppy mass storage to their VMEbus systems by eliminating the need to bolt the drives to the chassis and provide cabling. The field-replaceable card also makes it easy for field service personnel to repair the drives, install drives, and upgrade the operating system and application code. The storage card enhances security by making it practical for operators to remove the hard drives from the system on a daily basis.

The card occupies a single 6U VMEbus slot and can be configured with either two IDE drives and a standard 3.5-inch floppy, or one IDE drive and an LS120 Super Floppy. Each 2.5-inch IDE drive provides a capacity of up to 9.2GB and is available with factory pre-installed operating systems. The 2.5-inch drives, each just 10mm high, can withstand shock and vibration of up to 100Gs. The new product is available immediately, is equipped with two 9.2GB IDE drives, and costs less than $1,000 in single-piece quantity.