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Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives
As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. What I’m about to describe is already common knowledge in the vintage computing world, but I thought it would be fun to share my take on it anyway.
As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. This is due to Quantum’s patented technology(long expired) known as AIRLOCK, which automatically keeps the head stack latched in place near the spindle until the drive spins up. After the drive was working properly, my ZuluSCSI immediately began dumping the contents using initiator mode — a super cool feature it provides, which is also available in the BlueSCSI v2 firmware fork.
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