MFM Hard Drive testing in a more modern PC

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At any rate, I think Al Kossow mentioned that David Geisswein has come up with a very reasonable MFM emulator. It has the advantage that it can read an ST506 interface drive as well as emulate one....

VC forum member (and moderator) pski is using one of these on TRS-80 Model II/12/16-series machines successfully.

 

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Having a working MFM drive vs running flash emulation has appeal all to itself. The appeal to me is to get a vintage pc running with all the vintage hardware.

 

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Ok so i had what appears to be an xt clone motherboard, 2 368dx motherboards, and a 486 DX motherboard, and this 486slc (cyrix) motherboard.

The only one I could get to attempt a boot was the 486slc.

Its a "DAT305" model. Reading some other post it may be a good thing that this board does not have built in IDE controllers.

The bad news. With all the boards I drug home.. not a single MFM controller. So now i need to find one of those.

 

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... not a single MFM controller. So now i need to find one of those.

I have several MFM/Floppy controllers and one NIB, NOS RLL only controller if you're interested.