MFM Disk Drive Repair, Low Level Format & Testing Tutorial #vintagecomputer

Defect MFM Hard Disk Drive Magnetic Pheripherals Type 94205-053. I am showing here the troubbleshooting, repairing with soldering and desoldering bad capacitors and solving tricky ribbon cable failiure. After repairing low level formatting with bios and setting right interleave with the programm Spinrite 2. Benchmarking the drive and getting it ready to use in any retro system. #Tutorial
Components for testing:
Mainboard with Intel 386SX-16 CPU
Trident ISA VGA Card 8900 512kb videomemory
Western Digital WD-1006V MFM Controller
Western Digital Floppy Controller

What I learned during this repairing: Never throw things away, most of the stuff is repairable! ;-)

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