Very old HDD, remove the info?

Storm2k2011-10-07 05:05:00

Hard disks

Storm2k, 2011-10-07 05:05:00

I found an old 1990 hard drive in the bins. Such a steampunk Western Digital for 43 megabytes WD95044-A.
The inputs are similar to IDE and Molex. Maybe they are. I tried the USB-IDE adapter, it does not see it.
What ways are there, to see what is preserved there and to make a dump. Just have a look by connecting to a computer? I think the standards have changed a lot in 21 years. Correctly?

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Rampage_Masta, 2011-10-07
@Rampage_Masta

And why all the same, “Just have a look by connecting to a computer”?

Sergey, 2011-10-07
@bondbig

native| Translation
                                                      ------+-----+-----+-----
Form 5.25"/HH Cylinders 782| 977| |
Capacity form/unform 43/ MB Heads 4| 5| |
Seek time / track 28.0/ms Sector/track 27| 17| |
Controller IDE / AT Precompensation 65535
Cache/Buffer KB Landing Zone 862
Data transfer rate 0.938 MB/S int Bytes/Sector 512
                      4.000 MB/S ext
Recording method RLL 2/7 operating | non-operating
                                                  -------------+--------------
Supply voltage 5/12 V Temperature *C 5 50 | -40 60
Power: sleep W Humidity % 8 80 | 5 95
       standby W Altitude km -0.457 2.973 | -0.457 12.200
       idle 7.4 W Shock g 5 | 40
       seek W Rotation RPM 3600
       read/write 9.3 W Acoustic dBA 40
       spin-up W ECC Bit
                                MTBF h 40000
                                Warranty Month
Lift/Lock/Park NO Certificates

IDE / AT, voltage is also standard. Try.
Here 's more info on jumpers.

FIZIK, 2011-10-07
@FIZIK

I had a similar one in 80286. I came with my board. I don't remember now if it was IDE compatible. It seems that I stuck it into another computer, but now, after years of prescription, I won’t say anything ... But I remember for sure that in the BIOS I manually indicated the number of sectors, head and cylinders. There should be a sticker on it with all these data. Connect directly to the computer and set all these parameters in the BIOS. Poidee should start.

TimID, 2011-10-07
@TimID

You may need an MCA controller (it seems) - a separate board connected to the ISA connector on the board.
Used on old IBMs.
But maybe the problem is elsewhere. I had a hard drive that required much more power (power) than a regular IDE - when connected to a laptop through an adapter, it “dropped” the battery.
Try connecting your hard drive directly to the motherboard of a "big" PC.
And in the BIOS, you may still need to set the screw parameters (where AUTO is written), set “cylinders, heads, sectors” manually. This information may be on the screw body.
It’s just that if the disk is very old, then it didn’t “know” about AUTO ...

mambet, 2011-10-07
@mambet

I had a similar, it was automatically detected, seemingly ordinary IDE, but with jumpers there was a very interesting thing; there were a lot of them, they were undocumented (on the screw itself), and depending on the position, the screw was formatted a little differently on different mothers.
Those. put it in one position, formatted it - on computer A it is readable, on computer B it is not readable. Put it in a different position - the situation is reversed.

powder96, 2012-05-01
@powder96

Because your disk is old, then to work with it you may need to set the HDD Type in the BIOS (you can google its instructions with a list of types according to the disk model). To be honest, I have not seen such a function in modern computers (or looked badly).