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Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive

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The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open

And finally, the whole drive blown up. If you are wondering, yes, it went back together and ran as it did before, though the heads made a bit of noise, and I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't try to store anything important on it, even if I did have the right controller.
                                                                                                             

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Motor, controller tradergeorge | 02/04/08
Controller zach@... | 02/06/08
RLL vs. MFM tdeger@... | 02/06/08
Depends on the controller pgm554 | 02/06/08
Close willcomp | 02/06/08
Good old ST-225s techr@... | 03/31/08
Debug commands mpatchett@... | 04/08/08
RLL vs. MFM bill.wynne@... | 02/06/08
first of the self parking heads steve.weber.ctr@... | 02/06/08
ST-250R, one of my least favorites pjrobertz@... | 02/06/08
Why to collect vintage hard drives Roc Riz | 02/11/08
Why collect vintage stuff t.rohner@... | 02/12/08
mfm-rll nbatchelor@... | 03/28/08
100% right zach@... | 02/07/08
Sectors per track jpittman@... | 02/07/08
Parking was just a good thing to do techr@... | 03/31/08
Ah memories! Andrew.Browning@... | 04/17/08
Nice! seanferd | 02/06/08
Hand model indeed drew.mcbee@... | 02/08/08
Motors from drive burtoni | 02/07/08
Price tedede | 03/12/08
Lucky! Andrew.Browning@... | 04/17/08
Stepper Motor? dazzled and dazed | 04/03/08
Old stuff wecoverla@... | 04/18/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive) Lost Cause? | 02/04/08
ran drew.mcbee@... | 02/08/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive) mjd420nova | 02/04/08
... still had one of these still floating around... TobyLopez@... | 02/06/08
clock drew.mcbee@... | 02/08/08
Clock meski.oz@... | 02/13/08
Best of Luck triso | 03/25/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 Douglas Evans | 02/06/08
Deity in engineering BALTHOR | 02/06/08
Precision bit placement accuracy... techr@... | 03/31/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 iansavell@... | 02/06/08
Cobalt? cescobar@... | 02/06/08
No, but I'm wrong anyway iansavell@... | 02/07/08
Floor spin it pjrobertz@... | 02/07/08
Marvels Mystery Oil techr@... | 03/31/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive) a-hi@... | 02/06/08
Regarding the head positioning sidco95@... | 02/06/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 VPedersen | 02/06/08
the 'shim' band meski.oz@... | 02/07/08
5.25 drew.mcbee@... | 02/08/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 jcmussio@... | 02/06/08
Actuator Motor Type t.rohner@... | 02/07/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive) byee40d@... | 02/07/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 MB RLL drive) jmreilly@... | 02/07/08
Old CDC drive burtoni | 02/07/08
Ahhh... the good old times pepoluan | 02/07/08
The good old times misceng | 02/08/08
Timex drew.mcbee@... | 02/08/08
RLL jbarbalace0@... | 03/16/08
A useful skill... Andrew.Browning@... | 04/17/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 keith_deininger2@... | 02/09/08
50 MB in a '286???? Zenith545 | 02/10/08
Maybe it was a upgrade t.rohner@... | 02/11/08
60mb in a 286 tony556 | 02/17/08
Resurrected 286 with a 2.1 GB hard drive! nix_hed | 03/17/08
10MB was hog heaven Prague | 04/16/08
16k 8" Floppy - Now that was really heaven... frankbicknell@... | 04/21/08
Dredging up now useless info rickydoo | 02/10/08
Greetings from a ST238R V.P. Engineering, Thailand dogmas47xxy@... | 02/27/08
Thanks for the clarification pjrobertz@... | 02/28/08
Wow thanks for triggering some old memories rhidir2@... | 03/19/08
Error list on top. Narg | 03/14/08
RE: The Seagate 50 MB RLL drive, cracked open (Cracking Open a Seagate 50 pholtorf@... | 03/14/08
Killing drives was fun in those days! agulesin@... | 04/01/08

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