Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[Jim Leonard]

woodelf wrote:
> Speaking of old HD's don't forget many old drives had special
> drivers that hacked into DOS. So save the drivers and formating
> stuff and DOS now* before your HD fails.

This reminds me of the (Quantum) Plus hardcard series.  I have 4 of them -- 
some 8-bit ISA and some 16-bit ISA -- and all of them have gone bad because the 
EPROM that holds the onboard BIOS has "faded" (which is odd because only two of 
them have the little window, the other two are sealed).  Without the BIOS, you 
can't access the drive because the controllers are, IIRC, nonstandard.

(BTW, if anyone thinks they can use them, they're yours -- I'm very close to 
just tossing them out.)
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