17 Aug
1998
17 Aug
'98
11 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Jason writes;
The only noise I can get from any of the old Seagate MFM's (besides the growl
of windup) is that odd little tweet they make, which is really invisible.
Minscribes are the noisy SOB's and have the stepper on the outside that grind
and scrach and have new owners asking if the drive is dying.
Speaking of that, anyone have a working MiniScribe model 8450XT (IDE XTA 3.5")
that they want to sell/trade/give away? Need one quick for a replacement for a
parapelegic guy (Nam Vet) out there I just met that hasa machine in his
collection that is dead. The controller can't be accessed to chage the
parameters so the easiest repair is an exact replacement. He's got a few bucks
but by no means is he rich and his computer collection is his whole day for
him. He has no internet connection so I get the task of locating one via email
for him.
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Ethan, this hd ST251-1 is equally bad and it uses
stepper not voice
coil. Can see the stepper itself. Also this hd have lot of
reliablity problems and very touchy especially handling, very
loud noisy.
I sit corrected. I had thought that the 28ms version used a voice coil
and the 40ms version used a stepper. That is not the case.
As for noise, yes. It's noisy by today's standards. All of the old
drives were touchy WRT handling. I didn't consider it more so than
any other 8 year old drive.