Macintosh SE or SE/30 Unique Hard Drive Sound

[aplmak]

I'm just trying to figure out when I first started working on machines what the typical model of the hard drives were in the SE or SE/30? I remember a unique squeaking sounding one that worked pretty slowly... It made a pretty cool sound.. Sometimes you hear that same sound in old movies they use as a floppy or hard drive copying sound. I've tried a few Seagates 40MB, and Quantums.. I'm not finding the right maker... Does anyone recall or remember what model it was?? They were not large in size.. and it had to be late 80's early 90's.. I think it was right when the SE came out they threw them in those.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Is it Miniscribe you’re thinking of? Here’s a video of the sound:

 

[aplmak]

That's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow your good!!

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

No problem, glad to help

 

[aplmak]

I have other MFM miniscribes that are 5 1/4 but not one of these!! I have yet to find one of these in a machine! And still yet to find one of the Miniscribe "bricks" lol!!! I'm sure you have heard the stories by now about Miniscribe.. lol

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Haha, yeah I've heard about the brick situation. I watched a video about the whole situation there, it's crazy just how much fraud went on there! At least they didn't ship those bricks to customers. All that over a bunch of hard drives!

 

[aplmak]

Great documentary:

 

[aplmak]

Haha, yeah I've heard about the brick situation. I watched a video about the whole situation there, it's crazy just how much fraud went on there! At least they didn't ship those bricks to customers. All that over a bunch of hard drives!

Yeah I heard they really were on pallets for inventory purposes... and some did go out to major manufacturers but of course they noticed.. lol so naturally the manufacturers didn't install bricks But it would certainly be cool if someone had one of those boxes with an actual brick in it!!

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I believe that is the video I watched a few months ago, it is really good! I wonder what the conversation between the manufacturer who got the bricks and Miniscribe would have sounded like? "Hey, we opened up the new pallet of drives, and the boxes have bricks in them? What? No, actual bricks!"

 

[aplmak]

I think that was a huge sign to them they need to source another drive manufacturer.. lol Since I don't think it was a wrong item sent... haaa haaa....

 

[aplmak]

I actually got a Miniscribe 8425 up and running... replaced all the tantalum caps on them as I have noticed some bad ones in the past on them. Perhaps there was a bad batch that's why so many people have bad Miniscribe's. I am theorizing that perhaps some bad tantalums zapped other components. I have also noticed many SE's and SE/30's they made the mounting bracket so the drive requires to be installed upside down. I know in theory it shouldn't make a difference but I think that may also be a contributing factor to failures of these and the Quantum drives. I've installed mine the right way up using the very bottom horizontal cuts in the metal. There is a gap though but not too bad. I suppose one could throw some spacers or washers in between. You also have to bend the SCSI ribbon cable to fit correctly if doing this. I personally don't think it's too healthy for a drive of this age to be upside down. Perhaps at the time when they were new it wasn't an issue...