I broke my hard disk. 🙁
Yesterday I was fiddling with my 386 DX40. The system had a Conner cp30174 disk (170MB). It still is working great, but would not let me use any slave drive, so I put in a Seagate ST51080A. Only half of its size would be usable but that is ok with me.
Installed the disk, booted and set bios parameters. Put DOS 6.22 on it and shut down to put some programs onto the CF card to install. Turned it back on and before POST had completed, the disk began to rattle and produced a noise beyond happiness.
Turned it off again. And on again.
Spinup is very slow, bios won't detect it any more and disk spins down within as minute.
I think there might be a worn out bearing or something...
🙁
Now I've put in a Decathlon 850MB. Still got the 528MB barrier, but the controller can't keep up with its speed :p
Still... Got one disk less....