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
Re: Megafile 30 bites the bullet
Posted: 20 Oct 2018 11:46
by sandord
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:
Re: Megafile 30 bites the bullet
Posted: 20 Oct 2018 13:40
by exxos
I do have a similar hard drive in the for sale section if that helps..
Re: Megafile 30 bites the bullet
Posted: 20 Oct 2018 15:18
by PaulJ
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.
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.