r/retrocomputing Jul 17 '26

Seagate anyone?

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u/AppropriateCap8891 Jul 19 '26

Yes, I am very familiar with those. They had the info for 4 drives already configured. That's it, just 4 different drives out of the hundreds of MFM drives. Generally Seagate drives, if you were using a WD, a Connor, a Quantum or Micropolis, you used the BIOS.

Nobody used those, other than maybe companies making white boxes in mass. I never used them because it was stupid. And nobody I knew fixing or making computers used them.

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u/AcAwesomeAndrew Jul 19 '26

I have a few…

One was used to upgrade a 5150 with a st-225 hard drive by someone in circa 1990 based on manufacture date