Large hard disk

I have here a large hard disk drive which I know very little about. It is very solidly built of what looks like thick aluminium castings (with lots of fins) which has been anodised to a kind of light grey-gold colour. According to the bathroom scales it weighs about 37.5Kg or 85lb, and is about 40 * 27 * 34 cm or 1'4" * 11" * 1'1" in size. There is no control circuitry in or on the drive itself as far as I can see. The heads are connected to two 40 pin IDC connectors on top of the unit marked CN91 and CN92, the head motor is connected to a two pin plug marked CN93 underneath the unit, and the platter motor (which drives the spindle directly) is connected to a 5 pin plug marked CN94 to the left of CN93. There is an empty space for a CN95 connector next to CN94, and there is also a connector marked CN95 on the main drive motor itself (it looks like a position sensor). The mounting frame is shock mounted to the base via four rubber bushes. On the mounting frame is a label which says "B030-4840-T031A". On the top cover panel next to the head connectors is a label with two barcodes on it, one above the other. Below the top barcode it says "S/N A43396 REV B0". Below the bottom barcode it says "C/N 1A9840". On the casing above the head drive motor is another barcode label which says "S/N 3A43396". The main drive motor has a label that says: UGBT1D-TP0FU11 B90L-1560-0101A 24V 4A 701297-2 YASKAWA ELECTRIC JAPAN I don't have a digital camera, so no pictures I'm afraid. Does anybody know what this drive is, how old it is, what type of machine it was used with, what capacity it is, how much it cost when new, etc. Also, does anyone have a use for it? I'm willing to give it away to a good home, though I'd rather it was collected in person (from Burnley, in the NW of England). Failing that, I'd be willing to accept the cost of the postage (bearing in mind that it won't be cheap due to the weight) and a reasonable contribution towards the cost of packing materials and the effort involved in lugging the thing to the post office. -- ------- Alex Holden ------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ http://www.robogeeks.org/