The miniscribe drives that I have seen were prone to failure because the mechanism would suck in dirt that would stop the platters from moving. There was a guy in Chicago years ago who repaired the mfm miniscribe drives for real cheap. I had done some business with him and he finally told me that he was getting away from repairing these drives. He said that all he did was turn the drive upside down and blast it with compressed air to remove the dust. That usually fixed 99% of the drives. I just tossed 3 working 20 meg 3.5 " miniscribe drives on the 20th of May of this year. I have had them in storage for 15 years and finaly tossed them. Now I see that I could have sold them for good money. Isnt that the way it always goes...
-----Original Message----- From: LisaList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Vaughn Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:24 AM To: LisaList Subject: Re: New owner needs help The hard drive used in my Lisa is indeed not of the ProFile or Widget type. It is a 3.5" disk, made by Miniscribe, which uses two card-edge connectors on the end (otherwise known as MFM, if I remember correctly). The only place I've seen these drives have been on the hard-cards which are sometimes seen in older computers unable to support a hard drive installation otherwise. I may have a replacement hard drive of the same size and connection style on the way, but unfortunately, I don't have any software which I could put on it. I'll take some pictures of the controller and drive once I can get the drive cage out (the knob is on there pretty tightly at the moment). -Adam -- Adam Vaughn Collector of old computers, video game systems, radios and other electronic equipment... Visit my page at http://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/index.html > Hello Adam! > > I think, macmoni has given you the wrong answer. > look at the attached pictures showing my own SUN 20 controller with a Kalok > Oktagon model 320 (20MB). > Is this the same controller and hard disk found in your Lisa? > > If your answer is yes, then I can help you further. > > greetings, > > Helmut Post > > > on 28.07.2005 5:54 Uhr, Adam Vaughn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello everyone. I recently lucked into a Lisa. It appears to be a original > > Lisa 1 converted by Sun Remarketing into a Macintosh XL, since it has a > > parallel port on the back, but a 3.5" floppy drive of some sort in the front. > > It also has an internal 20MB HD, whose interface appears to connect to said > > parallel port. When I first got it, it actually managed to boot into MacWorks > > Plus 1.x.x, and then into System 6.0.2. Unfortunately, since then, the > > internal HD refuses to spin up anymore. I might have a source for a > > replacement hard drive of the same type (3.5" MFM), but I'm unsure as of yet > > where I'd get software for this thing, or how I'd go about formatting the > > replacement hard drive to be readable/bootable by the Lisa. Any ideas? Thanks > > in advance. > > -Adam > > > > -- > > Adam Vaughn > > Collector of old computers, video game systems, radios and other electronic > > equipment... > > Visit my page at > > http://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/index.html > > > -- > LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > LisaList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com -- LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> LisaList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com -- LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> LisaList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
