7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
5:07 p.m.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"?
Hehe - Don't forget the wonderful Kalok Octa-gone...
Octa-went.
-Ian
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Ah, yes, Kalok; a name that evokes many memories, none pleasant...
(although in my experience the Miniscribes weren't _too_ bad)
m
Any idea why?
I'd love to have a handful of 20mb 3
1/2" drives to use
for various things but I never see them.
I'm talking about drives from Rodime, Seagate,
Lapine, etc... cerca 1985.
Most were unreliable, Miniscribe comes to mind. 
24 Apr
24 Apr
9:45 p.m.
M H Stein wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"?
Hehe - Don't forget the wonderful Kalok Octa-gone...
Octa-went.
-Ian
----------------
Ah, yes, Kalok; a name that evokes many memories, none pleasant...
(although in my experience the Miniscribes weren't _too_ bad)
m
I have one of those kalok drives, along with an unidentified board --
how do I go about using it? I have some Pentium 3 machines I could put
it in, but I was wondering how exactly do I go about getting it to work.
--
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
-- Linus Torvalds
Any idea
why? I'd love to have a handful of 20mb 3
1/2" drives to use
for various things but I never see them.
I'm talking about drives from Rodime, Seagate,
Lapine, etc... cerca 1985.
Most were unreliable, Miniscribe comes to mind. 
25 Apr
25 Apr
8:14 a.m.
--- Segin <segin2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
Octa-gone...
>
> Octa-went.
I have one of those kalok drives, along
with an
unidentified board --
how do I go about using it? I have some Pentium 3
machines I could put
it in, but I was wondering how exactly do I go about
getting it to work.
--
Well, first, in getting a Kalok drive to work, you'll
need a miracle... The unidentified board you have - is
it perhaps, a controller board? What Kalok drive do
you have? Some were actually IDE, some SCSI, most that
I have seen have been MFM. A lot depends on the
interface. I have had luck running an MFM drive on a
modern PC by way of using the controller card and
disabling the motherboard's onboard IDE controller,
and ensuring that the motherboard allows the BIOS of
other cards to operate.
Are you trying to recover data off this drive?
-Ian
M H Stein wrote:
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"?
>
Most were unreliable, Miniscribe comes to mind.
Hehe - Don't forget the wonderful Kalok Ah, yes,
Kalok; a name that evokes many memories,
none pleasant...
(although in my experience the Miniscribes
weren't
_too_ bad)
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