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Stiletto wrote:

Happy to see you found your way here, but ...

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Thank you ~Stiletto~, Just what I'm looking for. Hope you own one 286 yourself 😉

@Godlike

Oh man that HDD is amazing 😁 so many good memories. I had one on my first 486 back in the day. I still have it, and it works like a charm. Also have one on my PS/2.

They make a very nice little noise 😁

Have fun with that awesome little 286!

Edit: Removed unnecessary quote

@orinoko

SRSLY, can we NOT quote a post with lots of images plz? I know i might be sounding like an ass, but seriously @Godlike works great when your talking to justone person.

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🤣 i forgot the @orinoko part. 😜

@luckybob, sure can do. Sorry about that 😒

no, its the quote thing where people copy a post with a bunch of images and then add a line or two.

Oh I agree. I'm guilty of doing that very often, with little to no real benefit to anyone. I've edited my comment to not include the quoted images.

UPDATE!
Yes, I'm one person, no other creatures involved into this project (goblins, dwarfs, gnomes etc).
I bought another Seagate St157A in unknown condition but it have 5'25 mounting extension.

Funny thing: I been doing hairs yesterday to my girlfriend and realised that we are going to use cream oxidizer. Before that day I been reading about re whitening old yellow plastic (sun activity for long time) from retro PC's, consoles and so on. I read “Retr0bright” Project from Amibay too. I don't have much time to make special formula or wait for sun to use it again with cream for reversal process. I did simply test yesterday evening. I took piece of old unused yellow from sun, beige piece of damaged plastic from rear panel of desktop dell office pc. I have nothing to loose I said myself. I don't have much time to control re whitening process every 30 minuts in order to not damage it. What about if I leave that plastic for the whole night? Cream oxidizer seems to be caustic/corrosive. I left plastic with cream on it in darky room for the whole night. Today I discover that cream oxidizer make that plastic new again 😀 seriously 😀 I didn't discover any damage done to plastic by cream oxidizer - like excessive cream usage by many hours. IT SIMPLY LOOKS LIKE NEW. No other chemicals used, no special equipment been used, no need to control that process with sun rays. NOTE THAT: I used 9% cream oxidizer, there might various pecentage occur, like 2%, 6%, 9%, 12%. I do NOT recommend 12% cream oxidizer as is highly active and causes gases.
Maybe you are reading because you have Atari ST, high-end Amiga or other hard to find stuff and expensive. Of course you don't want do damage plastics, but they are still Not-So-Mellow Yellow. REMEMBER: This experiment is 100% safe, If you don't have experience and dont believe me on word, just try with unwanted piece of old yellow plastic. This is easy and cheap FIX, that's why I like to post about it. I would like to share great ideas.
Look at the result: right bottom corner of the panel I work with. You can see diference with rest of it.

Is that an ESDI disk?

Nah that's IDE

Seagate ST-157A
The best of the IDE stepper generation, very reliable, and almost as fast as the Maxtor/Miniscribe one. These are instantly recognisable by their distinctive half-circle shape.
Seagate were very late entrants into the 3.5 inch drive market, having been distracted by their quality problems with the ST-251R, rapidly falling market share when the clone makers began to take over from IBM, and their acquisition of mainframe drive maker Imprimis, but when Seagate finally released 3.5 inch drives they were good ones. Most ST-157s were still going just fine when they were finally retired in favour of something much bigger and newer.

@Godlike haha good old Redhill 😀

http://www.redhill.net.au/d/13.php

That's right 😀

I have the same drive in my 386SX!! It makes pleasant sounds that remind me of my youth, albeit it is abysmally slow - My other (non-era correct) NEC 340MB in the same system blows it out of the water.

It is a good drive. I have a similar model the 157-A. It isn't ide, but for ps/2 machines. I like everything about this 286 tbh.

Another update to the system :
Quick Joy SV 209, intend of this ISA card is to play PONG or DOS equivalent game for both (first game I played in my life)

luckybob wrote:

It is a good drive. I have a similar model the 157-A. It isn't ide, but for ps/2 machines. I like everything about this 286 tbh.

Oddly enough, I have a IBM PS/2 Model 40SX which has the ST-157A in it (386SX system with IDE). IBM really did enjoy messing around with varying interface options, didn't they??

I wanna say that just in the PS/2 line they offered ST-506, ESDI, IDE and SCSI, with a mix of ISA, EISA and MCA expansion. Can't recall if they ever offered one with VLB or PCI, though.

My second computer ever was a PS/2 - almost has me wanting to find another one, now...

jade_angel wrote:

My second computer ever was a PS/2 - almost has me wanting to find another one, now...

PROTIP: DON'T

The level of commitment to get a ps/2 system going is quite high compared to average white-box stuff.

luckybob wrote:

jade_angel wrote:

My second computer ever was a PS/2 - almost has me wanting to find another one, now...

PROTIP: DON'T

The level of commitment to get a ps/2 system going is quite high compared to average white-box stuff.

Yeah - good luck finding an MCA Sound Blaster.