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Title: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: reddwarfer on July 27, 2007, 10:22:20 PM

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

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: Zac67 on July 27, 2007, 10:28:16 PM

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:

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: reddwarfer on July 28, 2007, 08:59:04 AM

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.

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: CLS2086 on July 28, 2007, 09:21:35 AM

Old COMPAQ desktops 086/286 with 20mb HDD are XT 8 bits  :rtfm:

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: Zac67 on July 28, 2007, 09:32:42 AM

Don't forget to adjust your auction text accordingly - if you want to keep that 100%...

... including "Capacity: 1 GB" -  :crazy:

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on July 28, 2007, 12:31:06 PM

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Zac67 wrote:
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...

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: Zac67 on July 28, 2007, 01:10:07 PM

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.

Title: Re: Replacement A590 Drive on eBay
Post by: reddwarfer on July 28, 2007, 03:43:51 PM

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!