Anders,
OK good things to check. However my parallel port in on my WIN98 Toshiba laptop (Pentium II type) so while the port should be compatible, I don't think I can use OpenCBM to format as it...
Many thanks for both your replies. I shall get together with a colleague at work hopefully today and see if we can resolve. He used to work on them and being older than me is way more...
Oh one more. The Hitachi DK815 10 http://www.reskid.cn/harddisk/bigharid/hitach%20dk815%2010%20hda/table.htm with SMD interface? I never heard of it before but there is a nice wikipedia page...
Holy crap and look at the Data General 5618 15" disk with SDI interface?!?! The precurser to ESDI??... and that crazy cyan color and geometric chambers makes it look like it belongs in a video game...
The Data General caption says it is 14 inch but no specs and the thing appears to be encased in plexiglass? Talk about enthusiast drive... unbelievable. Can this drive really be legit?...