14 Oct
2018
14 Oct
'18
4:29 p.m.
Hi Eric,
I have working 10MB and 20MB units here being driven by a PC XT with the
Iomega specific card for them.
I've had to puts lots of effort into cleaning the heads on them. I'm not
sure if there is an oxide shedding problem or just 30 years of dust that
I'm fighting, but they do seem to be very finicky at this stage. It also
could be a media formatting problem; I think they have servo tracks that
were laid down at manufacturing time, so if you have a read error on the
servo track there is no way to fix it.
Mike
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:34 AM Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Does anyone have the user, technical and/or service
manual for the original
10MB Iomega Bernoulli drives? Bitsavers has the manuals for the later
half-height 10.0/10.5 MB "Alpha-10H", but I'm looking for docs for the
original model, which was full-height with a SASI (pre-SCSI) interface.
I have the drives, about 20 cartridges that I want to image, and some
additional scratch cartridges.
I've never used Bernoulli drives before. These drives and cartridges were
last used around 1986. I'll disconnect and test the power supply before
powering up the actual drives, but is there anything else I should be
concerned with?
Does anyone have known-working 8-inch Bernoulli drives?