MiniScribe 3438 --- HELLLP!!!! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Mar 1999

I don't have a date on it.  The only thing that I really know about it is
that it was  pulled from a "TURBO-XT", manufactured by Wibles Computer
Corporation.  The drive has a sticker on it that says

COMPUTRS, INC. (not a typo)
             201-492-1229
                    2736 (this is stamped on)
REMOVAL VOIDS WARRANTY

The XT was probably from around 85-89.  It is identical to an IBM XT (even
has an IBM branded floppy), other than the badge saying "IBM" on the front,
it says "WIBLES".
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-----Original Message-----
From: cdrmool(a)interlog.com &lt;cdrmool(a)interlog.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: MiniScribe 3438 --- HELLLP!!!!

...

Jason, the only thing I can find off hand states that the 3438 was a) a
32.7mg drive.  615 cyls, 4 heads, 26 sectors, b)that it is a 32mg ST-506
RLL and that it was 612 cyls(!!!).  The former was from Mueller's
"Upgrading and Repairing PC's" and the latter was from Minasi's "PC
Upgrade
and Maintenance Guide".
Nothing on jumper settings.  Do you have a date on the drive?  That might
help me dig through my pile O' stuff.

Colan

At 05:36 PM 3/16/99 -0800, Jason Willgruber wrote:
>    Does anyone on this vast earth know the jumper settings for a MiniScribe
...
 >3438 hard drive???
>
>I've searched EVERYWHERE, and found the following:
>
>- It is either MFM or RLL
>- It is either 32 or 22 MB
>- It is either 5.25 HH or 3.5" FH.
>
>Of the sites I've found, one says that it's RLL, another says it's MFM.
>Another site says it's both.  Between the sites, one said it was 22 MB, the
...
 >other two said 32.  One of the sites said that it
was a 5.25" HH drive, and
...
  the last said
that it was a FH 3.5" (is there even such a thing?).

Other than the fact that it's 5.25" HH, I know NOTHING (useful) about this
drive.  The jumper settings seem to have vanished, along with the physical
drive specs.

Help!....
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                 -Jason Willgruber
               (roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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