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Miniscribe™ " The Brick " hard drive :-)
Once I opened up the cover and gave the spindle a little turn,
It's been running good.
Anyone still running with a miniscribe in their vintage mac?
What do you think of it?
They make a quite unique set of sounds
It's been running good.
Anyone still running with a miniscribe in their vintage mac?
What do you think of it?
They make a quite unique set of sounds
I never came across the miniscribes that everyone talks about. They have the linear stepper motor drive heads right, bit like a floppy drive?
My Mac SE came with a still working 20 mb Rodime stepper motor drive that sounds like this, love the startup seek sound of it.
(not my vid btw.)
My Mac SE came with a still working 20 mb Rodime stepper motor drive that sounds like this, love the startup seek sound of it.
I've never had to take apart MiniScribe to get it rolling again. I've only had to blow out the dust from the optical sensor or move the armature 1/8 turn or so (the one that says not to turn it).
I like these 20meg little beasts,,,
- The totally cool TYPICAL COMPUTER THINKING like sound when its accessing.
- When you shut down, the miniscribe slowly spins down then stops by its self(before you power down the computer), spins down much slower then when you just kill power to it.
- Seems like they are rock solid stable…
- couple quarks seems to be the Seek Stepper can get froze/stuck if it has been sitting for who knows how many years.
the hd spindle can also get froze, you manually move either of them some, they start working/moving again just like new.
another odd thing i noticed when i had the lid of the HD off… the whole slider system where the heads move on… i gave the whole head assm a wiggle and
there was some GIVE, like there is some slop…. you would think no way slop there would be a good thing!
but who knows… its been working great… i formatted it a few times.. .and filled it all up with apps and 7.1, hasn't given me one error!.
Did a "get info" on the system folder once it booted up, it said last modified:
September 28th 1998
- The totally cool TYPICAL COMPUTER THINKING like sound when its accessing.
- When you shut down, the miniscribe slowly spins down then stops by its self(before you power down the computer), spins down much slower then when you just kill power to it.
- Seems like they are rock solid stable…
- couple quarks seems to be the Seek Stepper can get froze/stuck if it has been sitting for who knows how many years.
the hd spindle can also get froze, you manually move either of them some, they start working/moving again just like new.
another odd thing i noticed when i had the lid of the HD off… the whole slider system where the heads move on… i gave the whole head assm a wiggle and
there was some GIVE, like there is some slop…. you would think no way slop there would be a good thing!
but who knows… its been working great… i formatted it a few times.. .and filled it all up with apps and 7.1, hasn't given me one error!.
Did a "get info" on the system folder once it booted up, it said last modified:
September 28th 1998
I just love that there are still movies being made that use the MiniScribe and Rodime drive sounds as "computer thinking" sounds.
Yeah Miniscribes make some cool sounds, mine nearly purrs like the stepper motor in old Commodore disk drives
Has anyone else experienced read errors when using them? Techknight reckons it could be the head amps so I guess there is nothing you can do unless you have replacement parts.
Has anyone else experienced read errors when using them? Techknight reckons it could be the head amps so I guess there is nothing you can do unless you have replacement parts.
I lost the write amp in mine. Could not be written to under any circumstance, but you can read it no problem, and boot from it. I chucked it :-(
So it was in effect read only?
Why can't the head amps (amplifiers?) be replaced?
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If i remember correctly, they are inside a custom IC.