15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
5:59 a.m.
Now, by disassembling and cleaning the B: drive, I was
able to get the
machine booting off this drive (cabled as A:). However, the same cleaning
procedure on the A: drive did not allow it to boot. I still have to clean
the heads. Maybe that'll make a difference. If not, I think I may have other
Qume drives without the IBM monniker on them that I can swap the bezels
with. I just have to dig through the cabinent and see what'll fit.
THe early, original Qumetrak 142 drives have my nomination for the second
to worst drive ever, coming in right after the early versions of the BASF
2/3 height drives.
The Qume drive was SO slow, that PC-DOS 2.10 had to extend the times to
prevent timeouts on normal disk I/O.