dluck
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I have several SMD and what I think are SMD drivers that I'd like to test.
Of these are 5.25" seagate ST41201J and PA4A2A.
I have some with correct power supply. Powering those up I get a blinking green light as I hear it spin up. Then I hear it exercise the arm and green lights goes solid green,.
Some of the drives are without power supplies but plugging those into this same power supply so far gets the same power up behavior. I'd like to test these a bit more.
I have access to several vintage computers of which I've not powered up or tried to resuscitate in awhile, except for my Amiga computers. Unfortunatly the only disk drive controllers I have for the Amigas are scsi and ata/ide. I tried looking for an SMD to scsi or ATA but couldn't find anything available. Maybe there is something in the warehouse I've not discovered yet.
I do have a sun3/50 and a sun 3/60, not yet power up. Also some microvaxes, some decmates, apples, trs80s, cbm, Ti's, HPs.
I've not investigated all those other machines to see if they have an SMD controller. I should check out the PDL 11/44 I have. But I'm trying to avoid restoring the more ancient hardware at this time to just test and exercise some SMD drives,
Eventually I plan to sell some of these SMD drives and because of the weight and shipping costs it would be better if I can test them first to avoid shipping a boat anchor.
Suggestions?
Of these are 5.25" seagate ST41201J and PA4A2A.
I have some with correct power supply. Powering those up I get a blinking green light as I hear it spin up. Then I hear it exercise the arm and green lights goes solid green,.
Some of the drives are without power supplies but plugging those into this same power supply so far gets the same power up behavior. I'd like to test these a bit more.
I have access to several vintage computers of which I've not powered up or tried to resuscitate in awhile, except for my Amiga computers. Unfortunatly the only disk drive controllers I have for the Amigas are scsi and ata/ide. I tried looking for an SMD to scsi or ATA but couldn't find anything available. Maybe there is something in the warehouse I've not discovered yet.
I do have a sun3/50 and a sun 3/60, not yet power up. Also some microvaxes, some decmates, apples, trs80s, cbm, Ti's, HPs.
I've not investigated all those other machines to see if they have an SMD controller. I should check out the PDL 11/44 I have. But I'm trying to avoid restoring the more ancient hardware at this time to just test and exercise some SMD drives,
Eventually I plan to sell some of these SMD drives and because of the weight and shipping costs it would be better if I can test them first to avoid shipping a boat anchor.
Suggestions?
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