Miniscribe 6086?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Jun 17 18:44:26 2000

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:35:19 -0400
> > From: technoid_at_cheta.net
> > Subject: Re: Miniscribe 6086?
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Reply-to: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>
> Snip!
>
> > drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We called our 'boneyard' "The
> > Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
> > They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
> > sound neat though.....
>
> WD was chip maker till they bought out Tandon. In that few years,
> all of their 20-40-60MB were all steppers and exact same design that
> Tandon originally designed for 3.5" years back. WD's early HH 3.5"
> was the basis for all their early 1" height drives but it was so
> utter unreliable still.
>
> Miniscribe was bought out by Maxtor for no reason. Maxtor was

IIRC, Miniscribe was just anout to go belly-up, and Maxtor prevented
that.

                                                 - don

> famillar enough with voice coil and not as good as Miniscribe still
> back then. I wondered why many time "Why was the Maxtor looking for
> when they have Miniscribe's IP in hand?" Only I can see is their
> Maxtor-designed 7000 series that it. What else?
>
> Now, Maxtor is getting better now I think hopefully.
>
> I find that stepper has their place and with my experience all die
> when they're faster than 65ms average seek time. Including Seagate.
> To seek faster, voice coil is the solution.
>
> I once saw a Miniscribe or Maxtor 5.25" FH with 8 or 10 platters w/
> voice coil type in a natural colored potmetal oval clamshell split
> in the middle where spindle axle is and ribbed in whole length of it.
> What was the series of this one?
>
> Wizard
>
Received on Sat Jun 17 2000 - 18:44:26 BST