Wanted: MFM hard drive
I'm looking for a working MFM hard drive in the 30-40MB range. Does anyone have one to spare? An emulator would be desirable later (I already have one of Dave Gesswein's), but for now I'm looking for spinning rust. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
I thought you have to get a paired Drive / Controller... I could be mistaken- but i thought you can just swap the drives around between controllers... -andy
On Jan 10, 2019, at 9:26 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm looking for a working MFM hard drive in the 30-40MB range. Does anyone have one to spare? An emulator would be desirable later (I already have one of Dave Gesswein's), but for now I'm looking for spinning rust.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:51:14AM -0500, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I thought you have to get a paired Drive / Controller... I could be mistaken- but i thought you can just swap the drives around between controllers...
The paired is only if you want to recover the original contents of the drive. If you are going to low level format they are reasonable interchangeable. Some systems only can format disks to certain known sizes but larger disks may be useable at reduced capacity. Some systems the low level format programs aren't available. Other systems only want to work with specific drives.
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:51:14AM -0500, andy diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I thought you have to get a paired Drive / Controller... I could be mistaken- but i thought you can just swap the drives around between controllers...
The paired is only if you want to recover the original contents of the drive. If you are going to low level format they are reasonable interchangeable. Some systems only can format disks to certain known sizes but larger disks may be useable at reduced capacity. Some systems the low level format programs aren't available. Other systems only want to work with specific drives.
This is for a Tandy 6000 that I'm donating to the LSSM. I have a ST-4096 that I believe is still working, but it requires a cable pin to be masked off because of the 8-head limitation (the 4096 has 9 heads) and I'm reluctant to install it it. I'll format whichever drive I install and load up Xenix 3.2. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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