The seek noise during initialization isn't indicative of at least "some" health on these step-motor actuated drives. You won't find them to produce the infamous tak-tak-tak sound if the data cannot be read since they have "hard" cylinders. Only drives with a voice coil actuator, and among them …

I stumbled across this peculiar Zykronix SBC while clearing out some boxes in my basement. I never heard of that manufacturer nor did I ever have seen a Cyrix Cy486SLC including its math coprocessor. The SBC is equipped with a C&T VGA with direct flat screen support and a 2MB memory upgrade. …

Mylex, TIGA and EISA - what's not to like :) Sadly, doesn't seem to be a manual, but there are still a few drivers & utilities listed on the Mylex graphic card support archive - https://web.archive.org/web/19970506210415fw_/http://www.mylex.com/support/mylex/grfxcrd.html Those ftp links are long …

I just subscribed to this forum since I've still got a basement of (once) beautiful stuff and at the time was a sucker for EISA hardware. Something's still left that may suffice to set up an EISA retro machine which I may start assembling some time in future. Since I've got a very peculiar Mylex …