@fbookrules You're welcome. And yes, I believe Norton Utilities had a program called " PARK.EXE " Or any hard disk utilities diskettes had some form of a parking program. All it really did was move the heads to an unused area of the patter so you could power down the harddrive and the heads would not land on an area used by data.
The large miniscribe drive was known as the desk shaker at my high school. The monitor moved a bit while doing a random seek test. Unfortunately the drive self destructed and gouged its disk platter.
I love the sound of that Miniscribe 7000 series drive! It doesn't use a rotary voice coil actuator like most drives; instead, it uses a linear voice coil, so the heads are not thrashing side to side but going back and forward like on a floppy drive. It's likely that that drive simply isn't liking the controller you're trying to use.
Theoretically 130 watts should be just fine, the average 386 processor eats only 4 watts on average. The hard drive uses up to 30 watts.
can you make a vid of a cleaning or gust a disasambly of one of those power suplis i just want to no what makes them so big
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@fbookrules Now that's an idea I hadn't thought of. Maybe I will make a video of what's inside those huge power supplies.
kaiyoshi2243 2 weeks ago
@kaiyoshi2243 sweet thankyou also do you no of a program that i can use to park the heads on a mfm drive?
fbookrules 2 weeks ago
@fbookrules You're welcome. And yes, I believe Norton Utilities had a program called " PARK.EXE " Or any hard disk utilities diskettes had some form of a parking program. All it really did was move the heads to an unused area of the patter so you could power down the harddrive and the heads would not land on an area used by data.
kaiyoshi2243 2 weeks ago
@kaiyoshi2243 thanks agian
fbookrules 1 week ago
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The large miniscribe drive was known as the desk shaker at my high school. The monitor moved a bit while doing a random seek test. Unfortunately the drive self destructed and gouged its disk platter.
jmw0284 4 weeks ago
I love the sound of that Miniscribe 7000 series drive! It doesn't use a rotary voice coil actuator like most drives; instead, it uses a linear voice coil, so the heads are not thrashing side to side but going back and forward like on a floppy drive. It's likely that that drive simply isn't liking the controller you're trying to use.
Theoretically 130 watts should be just fine, the average 386 processor eats only 4 watts on average. The hard drive uses up to 30 watts.
Eep386 1 month ago