Maverick1978
Veteran Member
@Mikey99, Was that 386 upgrade from an inboard? Wanna part with it? Might be interesting to have a 2-in-1 machine, so to speak!
@Paul, I'll double-check the drive jumper settings. So far as the cabling, the cables are original IBM and are labeled with Drive letters. It's definitely on a hard drive cable.
@tezza, I've been through your site on a few different occasions, and had seen your restorations on both the IBM AT and C= SX64 (which, sadly, I haven't even had time to open mine and blow out any dust before powering on!) - great site, and informative. I'm glad that you decided to chronicle your adventures
@floppies_only, I don't have the original manuals or diskettes with my AT, unfortunately, though I'm on the lookout for them. I downloaded an image of the AT diskette from a site I found in a Google search as well as a bootable-diskette with GSETUP on it. I wrote both out, but opted for GSETUP for the GUI interface, and most especially because all of the drive types were displayed and you can cycle through them.
@modem7, I'm not hearing the spindles turn in the drive. I hear the read/write head moving during initialization and that's about it. How would one go about lubricating these? I've never had an MFM drive apart - have never even removed the logic boards. I just know that this thing gets almost too hot to touch very quickly. I expect a drive to be warm, even hot - just not too hot to touch.
@Paul, I'll double-check the drive jumper settings. So far as the cabling, the cables are original IBM and are labeled with Drive letters. It's definitely on a hard drive cable.
@tezza, I've been through your site on a few different occasions, and had seen your restorations on both the IBM AT and C= SX64 (which, sadly, I haven't even had time to open mine and blow out any dust before powering on!) - great site, and informative. I'm glad that you decided to chronicle your adventures
@floppies_only, I don't have the original manuals or diskettes with my AT, unfortunately, though I'm on the lookout for them. I downloaded an image of the AT diskette from a site I found in a Google search as well as a bootable-diskette with GSETUP on it. I wrote both out, but opted for GSETUP for the GUI interface, and most especially because all of the drive types were displayed and you can cycle through them.
@modem7, I'm not hearing the spindles turn in the drive. I hear the read/write head moving during initialization and that's about it. How would one go about lubricating these? I've never had an MFM drive apart - have never even removed the logic boards. I just know that this thing gets almost too hot to touch very quickly. I expect a drive to be warm, even hot - just not too hot to touch.