> At 12:22 11/28/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >One of my recent finds is a....Miniscribe Model 3212.
> >Does anybody know its physical parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors)?
>
> MB 10, cylinders 612, heads 4. Anybody looking for this or any set of
> legacy HDD parameters, check out
>
> http://www.alaska.net/~zumwalt/os/hard_drive/Hdd_specs.txt
>
> __________________________________________
> Kip Crosby engine_at_chac.org
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> Computer History Association of California
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>
If this is Full height 10mb Miniscribe, it's built pretty good. I
had 2 of them that somehow went bad, done a teardown and saw how
solid parts were. Spindle motor is heavy and smooth. I have a
comment about miniscribes quality. Later ones like 3xxx, 36xx, 6xxx,
and 8xxx, they're gone downhill in quality department. Before
Miniscribe got gobbled by Maxtor, they made and sold several
7040/7080 drives and this remarkly kept that same design all the way
to around 1.6GB! Maxtor then redesigned wholly new drive afterwards
with smaller logic board, no longer used zebera connectors and made
packs and heads to handle up to 4 platters. The originals cannot
handle more than 2. I saw newer drive 3.2gb type few days ago and I
kept my judgement on it for quality and reliablity. Meaning: wait
and see.
When we needed service for current 7xxx series (couple of years ago
or so) and info we called Maxtor and (!!) were told they do not made
those logic boards for anything but put together physically.
Very questionable!
Troll
Received on Fri Nov 28 1997 - 09:09:31 GMT