First post, by McBierle
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Hi Friends,
i got my first MFM harddrive. Seagate ST-251-1 with an NCL 5425 controller card. I would like to try and recover the data; request from the guy i got it.
First try to just plug the stuff together diddn't work of course, where would be the fun in that... 😀
Things i tried:
1. Another (older) Motherboard. Jaguar V.
2. I somewhere read to try HDD type 40. 820-6-820-820-17 ... 41MB
This fits to the parameters i found online, but the drive ist not recognized "c: drive error" in post.
After booting via a floppy when i chkdsk or "dir c:" i get a "data error reading drive c:"
3. Then i used "SpeedStor 6.0.3". I let it check a bit and everything seemed to pass. The partition manager got some more results:
So i asume there is something on that HDD. But most interesting are shown drive parameters, 12 Headsand 85Mb!?!
4. Next i tried those above parameters and i got through POST (no disk error), but still wouldn't boot from c: and "dir c:" just hangs after "file not found".
5. Next i tried Type 44. 830-10-65535-830-17 ... 69MB. I still get the drive error but this is where i got the most for now, a "dir c:" showed the result you can see in the pic.
6. Side note: When i look at statsons for the controller card, the parameters of the hdd aren't in the supported devices. Also in the case that there is/was dos 3.3 installed wouldn't that support 32Mb Hdds?
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!