Re: New owner needs help

From: Adam Vaughn <AdamAnt316_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:24:07 +0000

The hard drive used in my Lisa is indeed not of the ProFile or Widget type. It is a 3.5" disk, made by Miniscribe, which uses two card-edge connectors on the end (otherwise known as MFM, if I remember correctly). The only place I've seen these drives have been on the hard-cards which are sometimes seen in older computers unable to support a hard drive installation otherwise. I may have a replacement hard drive of the same size and connection style on the way, but unfortunately, I don't have any software which I could put on it. I'll take some pictures of the controller and drive once I can get the drive cage out (the knob is on there pretty tightly at the moment). -Adam

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> Hello Adam!


> 

> I think, macmoni has given you the wrong answer.

> look at the attached pictures showing my own SUN 20 controller with a Kalok

> Oktagon model 320 (20MB).

> Is this the same controller and hard disk found in your Lisa?

> 

> If your answer is yes, then I can help you further.

> 

> greetings,

> 

> Helmut Post

> 

> 

> on 28.07.2005 5:54 Uhr, Adam Vaughn at AdamAnt316_at_email.domain.hidden wrote:

> 

> > Hello everyone. I recently lucked into a Lisa. It appears to be a original

> > Lisa 1 converted by Sun Remarketing into a Macintosh XL, since it has a

> > parallel port on the back, but a 3.5" floppy drive of some sort in the front.

> > It also has an internal 20MB HD, whose interface appears to connect to said

> > parallel port. When I first got it, it actually managed to boot into MacWorks

> > Plus 1.x.x, and then into System 6.0.2. Unfortunately, since then, the

> > internal HD refuses to spin up anymore. I might have a source for a

> > replacement hard drive of the same type (3.5" MFM), but I'm unsure as of yet

> > where I'd get software for this thing, or how I'd go about formatting the

> > replacement hard drive to be readable/bootable by the Lisa. Any ideas? Thanks

> > in advance.

> > -Adam

> > 

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> > equipment... 

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> > http://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/index.html

> 

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