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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
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- Subject: Re: Micropolis 1325 ?
- Message-ID: <exuptr.551.716427122@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 23:32:02 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.084303.23141@uwasa.fi>
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- In article <1992Sep12.084303.23141@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) writes:
- >From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
- >Subject: Micropolis 1325 ?
- >Date: 12 Sep 92 08:43:03 GMT
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- > I happen to get one old hard disk that is labeled
- > Micropolis 1325 (ST506). I wonder what is this ST506?
- > According to the great hard disk parameter catalog
- > (theref42.zip) this disk is normal MFM (ST412). But
- > when I try to format it using plain MFM controller
- > I can't get anything out of it. Or is it broken...
-
- > -harri-
-
- ST506 is MFM, probably just a later rev. It may be broken, indeed.
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