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bmonkey325 5 days ago | parent

Fun. I dont know what geography this was for, but some drives I didnt recall seeing that were famous (to me at least) not mentioned:

- Seagate ST-238 - the 30mb RLL version of the ST-225

- Seagate ST-251 - the 40mb MFM

- Seagate ST-4096 - full height 80mb

I also didn't see Rhodime or Kyrocera.

I remember the first time I opened a Compaq machine with a Conner peripherals IDE drive. I was baffled. What the hell is this ? Definitely wasn't going to initialize that with Debug: G=C800:5. The classic way to low level most MFM drivers in the era. There was no google to put in a part number to get details on.

ddingus 18 hours ago
Kyrocera... there is a name I have not heard in a long while!
We had off and on luck with those. I worked for a CAD reseller / consultancy firm at the time. Did a lot of hardware, systems engineering type work and we were always looking for high performance deals.
The Seagate 10K drives were bread and butter, but it often made sense to try other drives for cost, size, and sometimes availability reasons.
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