Drive Type International Memories, Inc. (IMI) 5012H

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Dec 5 23:07:42 CST 2010


On 5 Dec 2010 at 23:22, Bill Degnan wrote:

> The IMI 5012H is I am told a clone of the Shugart ST-512, which is a
> type 1 drive, can anyone confirm this?  I am, working to resurrect an
> IBM AT.  Silly me I disconnected the battery and lost the
> configuration settings.  I attempted to run setup, but when I declare
> the drive to be type 1 (or 2), the system returns a 1780 error code
> (drive seek error)...which makes me wonder if this is not really a
> drive type=1. Thanks

My CSC "Hard Drive Bible, VIII Edition" says the 5012H is 4 heads, 
306 cylinders 15MB  but the 10MB 5012 has the same geometry, so I 
suspect the "H" is RLL-certified.

--Chuck






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