lyonadmiral
Veteran Member
I think this topic has been beat to death; not just a dead horse but a greasy stain in the pavement, but I'd like to start fresh if I can.
There are a lot of modern day solutions to permanent storage for vintage systems; XT-IDE/CF is the big one, but in the spirit of keeping systems wholistic, what do you do for old MFM/DLL hard disk drives? I have an IBM 5161 with two full height 20 meg hard disk drives in them, they're loud but not screeching and both successfully low (unconditional) and high level format. On the other hand, I have two PS/2 8525's each with hard disks that while will successfully low level (unconditional) format, don't want to low level (conditional) or high level format at all. They're not loud, they don't screech, but just don't want to fully function. Any hope at all for those or chalk it up to just bad luck?
There are a lot of modern day solutions to permanent storage for vintage systems; XT-IDE/CF is the big one, but in the spirit of keeping systems wholistic, what do you do for old MFM/DLL hard disk drives? I have an IBM 5161 with two full height 20 meg hard disk drives in them, they're loud but not screeching and both successfully low (unconditional) and high level format. On the other hand, I have two PS/2 8525's each with hard disks that while will successfully low level (unconditional) format, don't want to low level (conditional) or high level format at all. They're not loud, they don't screech, but just don't want to fully function. Any hope at all for those or chalk it up to just bad luck?