🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings, fellow netters.

	I'm trying to revive some 286 and 386sx PC's that have been sitting
on the shelf at work for a few years.  I have two hard drives that MAY be
functional, but I'm not sure.

	The first disk drive is a Kalok model KL-330 MFM drive.  I have
an interface from an IBM PC/AT which I believe is MFM.  When I hook the
drive to the interface, I can't find a drive type in my BIOS that will
prevent a hard disk failure message from coming up when I boot.  After it's
been spinning for a while, the drive gets pretty hot.

	The second disk drive is a Seagate ST238R.  It has the same type
of connectors on the back as the Kalok drive, but something in the back of
my head tells me this is an RLL drive, not an MFM drive.  (I'm really 
unfamiliar with these old disk standards.)  Anyway, it doen't get hot 
when I hook it up to the disk controller, but it doesn't boot, either.

	Why am I bothering with these dinosaurs?  Well, I've been told I
can have a lot of this old computer equipment for free if I can get it
working.  I'm willing to spend a little of my own money...  anyone know
how I can find out if this stuff works?

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== John J. Ladasky II ("ii") ========================= ladasky@netcom.COM ==
"Great composers do not borrow -	     "Talking about music is like
 they steal."  - John Ladasky	      ~ -     dancing about architecture."
(quote stolen from Stravinsky, who    o o     - Elvis Costello?  Laurie
 stole it from a statement made by     >        Anderson?  Frank Zappa?
 Pablo Picasso about painting, who    \_/    -------------------------------
 stole it from...)			     "Property is theft." - Groucho
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