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WTB: HP 9133/9134/9135A, HDD, also non-working
06-06-2020, 02:01 PM (This post was last modified: 06-06-2020 02:02 PM by Dave Frederickson.)
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RE: WTB: HP 9133/9134/9135A, HDD, also non-working
Hi Michael,

When I bought my 9133D off eBay I also bought a cheap MFM ISA controller. I plugged this and the HD from the 9133 into my vintage PC and ran a utility called SpinRite.

SpinRite reads each track, re-low-level formats the track, and re-writes the data. There are options to write/read test patterns before re-writing the data. In short, it tests the c**p out of the drive and realigns the data.

I also noticed that the drive was 20MB so I reconfigured the controller for a 9133H.

Dave
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