I'm using Dr. Schaeffer's IDEFile: http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm So I would need a 16 bit ATA drive. As far as sound, I was looking for something with an audible seek, but quiet spindle. The Lisa's original Widget drive has a rather unique sound, and I want to capture some of that uniqueness with the IDEfile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADMHAdSNpM In one of my IDEFiles I have a ~200 mb Quantum drive. It makes some nice unique sounds, but is developing stiction issues. -J On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:22 AM Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
"Why??? I’m looking for something to use with an IDE adapter on my Lisa, and [I] want it to sound interesting."
It's a little amusing, to ask for hard drives based on acoustics. I'm an old person from a different time; I guess it's a thing now. (Yes, I know there's videos of stacks of drives playing tunes, thank you.) When drive stepping was noisier, it was a diagnostic, more convenient than a blinking "drive activity" LED.
I'm guessing, the Lisa may not accept any ancient IDE hard-drive. I know that some really old IDE hard drives have "the wrong" IDE interface (8 bit data and not standard 16 bit data). Is there a list of IDE hard drive brand/models the Lisa could reasonably use?
So - is there really a demand for "acoustic" IDE hard drives? Also, with a sound like a winding up jet engine as they start up? I can dig up some of these. No warranties.
Herb
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