Terry Yager
Veteran Member
I am not in to modding my vintage stuff yet either, however until someone finds a way to repair old dead MFM drives such as the ST-412, I am going to make that choice to retire my working drives so 5 or 10 years from now it will still be working. and someone like your self mike that makes the choice to keep useing the MFM drives will eaither have to use the IDE card or not have any MFM drives left, they are all running on borrowed time!
You're obviously overlooking that many of them go tits-up from sitting around unused. If ya keep 'em running there's less chance of stiction gluing the heads to the platters.
--T