Megafile 30 bites the bullet

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Megafile 30 bites the bullet

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So my Megafile 30 HDD made a grinding noise this morning and now stopped spinning :cry:

I know trying to replace a MFM / RLL drive is a non-starter so am looking to see what the best option is.

Just throwing out a few suggestions and am open to others.
  • Replace everything inside with something like a Gigafile or UltraSATAN but keeping the ACSI in and out ports
  • Replace with a ACSI to SCSI convertor and a SCSI HDD to provide the a similar disk like sound
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I'm sorry to hear that your precious drive has died!
Icky wrote: 20 Oct 2018 11:40 Replace with a ACSI to SCSI convertor and a SCSI HDD to provide the a similar disk like sound
Perhaps you could go with the UltraSatan and keep the/a drive in there as well for the sounds. I would require some trickery, probably using an arduino or something to trigger the drive heads. Think of the famous disks drive music projects like:



I know, this wouldn't be a small project :roll:
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I do have a similar hard drive in the for sale section if that helps..
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I put a scsi2sd 5.1 board in my mega-set. It works reliably but its not as fast as the Ultra Satan. It tested out at 720 kb /sec while the Ultra Satan was running at 1000 kb/sec.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SCSI2SD-v5-1-b ... :rk:1:pf:0
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PaulJ wrote: 20 Oct 2018 15:18 I put a scsi2sd 5.1 board in my mega-set. It works reliably but its not as fast as the Ultra Satan. It tested out at 720 kb /sec while the Ultra Satan was running at 1000 kb/sec.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SCSI2SD-v5-1-b ... :rk:1:pf:0
Thanks Paul - interesting to see Ultrasatan is faster. Might be swaying to that direction.
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Yes, its 30% faster..
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Well I have given up on the Megafile. I don't have the time to play around with it.

So if anyone wants it they can have it £0 - just need to pay the postage costs.
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Icky wrote: 16 Nov 2018 12:34 Well I have given up on the Megafile. I don't have the time to play around with it.

So if anyone wants it they can have it £0 - just need to pay the postage costs.
You can keep your extra glitter in it.
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PaulJ wrote: 16 Nov 2018 14:38
Icky wrote: 16 Nov 2018 12:34 Well I have given up on the Megafile. I don't have the time to play around with it.

So if anyone wants it they can have it £0 - just need to pay the postage costs.
You can keep your extra glitter in it.
:)
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I would accept your offer but I'm busy trying to devlutter as it is :shock:
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