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Old 07-27-2007, 03:22 PM   #1
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Default Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
I've just put up a type 20 MFM hard drive from an old laptop which I am very sure is identical to the one in my A590 Hard drive.
Item number: 250148264306
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Old 07-27-2007, 03:28 PM   #2
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Default Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Definitely not. This is a bog standard MFM aka ST506 type drive, the A590 used an XT bus drive (the 8 bit variant of IDE) - very rare and not worth looking for (or SCSI of course). The drive even looks like a 5.25" drive, no way to fit it into an A590.

MFM drives can be used on an A2090(a) or an ALF controller.

PS: must've been some ancient laptop... :roll:
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Old 07-28-2007, 01:59 AM   #3
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Default Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Okay, cheers Zac ;-)

Yeah it was an ancient laptop!
Well a luggable thing I picked up a few years back. It had a 80286 processor standard sized 3.5" disk drive, separate hard disk controller and inside it had some kind of OEM expansion slots which held the graphics processor.
I lost the power pack and its not worth buying another so its gonna have to go.
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Old 07-28-2007, 02:21 AM   #4
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Old COMPAQ desktops 086/286 with 20mb HDD are XT 8 bits
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Old 07-28-2007, 02:32 AM   #5
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Don't forget to adjust your auction text accordingly - if you want to keep that 100%...

... including "Capacity: 1 GB" -
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Quote:
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Definitely not. This is a bog standard MFM aka ST506 type drive, the A590 used an XT bus drive (the 8 bit variant of IDE) - very rare and not worth looking for (or SCSI of course). The drive even looks like a 5.25" drive, no way to fit it into an A590.

MFM drives can be used on an A2090(a) or an ALF controller.

PS: must've been some ancient laptop... :roll:
AFAIK, my A590 contains a SCSI disk (20 mb). I can also attach an external SCSI device to it. Though I dunno about SCSI-2 and compatibility, availability and so...
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Old 07-28-2007, 06:10 AM   #7
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I took SCSI on an A590 for granted. However, the originally shipped drives were 20 MB XT drives and these are frequently mixed up with IDE or MFM drives, but are not at all compatible with the those.
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Heh!
As far as I can tell when choosing the capacity the lowest it will go is 1Gb and it must be selected.

Will update the auction accordingly!
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