[Coco] Burke & Burke Hard Disk controller

[Steven Hirsch]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, tonym wrote:

> But, that's just my two cents - my Seacrates I think have all given up 
> the ghost, for the most part. Only a handful of ST251-1's (-1 is the 
> 42ms version) have actually survived and still work somewhat, along with 
> a couple of ST4096s, but those are physically huge, FH 5.25" monsters.

That's been exactly my experience with Seagates.  A few of my 
ST-225/238/251 half-ht. units still work reliably and have quiet bearings. 
All three ST4096s expired while in storage (!)

The only large (> 80M or so) MFM drives that seem to stand the test of 
time are the Maxtor 1140 and 2190 or maybe Priam V130/150.

Now that I have the MFM emulator, a lot of the pressure to find backups is 
relieved.

Steve


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