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Will a Syquest 10mb MFM cartridge drive work with the Myarc HFDC?

April 26, 2017cartridge drive hfdc mfm myarc SyQuest

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Will a Syquest 10mb MFM cartridge drive work with the Myarc HFDC?

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Prior to ZIP drives Syquest was the king of removable storage devices. They even produce some MFM based cartridge drives. The Syquest SQ312RD is a 10MB, MFM cartridge drive that does seem to be compatible with the HFDC. This Syquest drive is ST506 compatible, which is a requirement for it to work with the HFDC. I’ve located a working SQ312RD drive and it was accessible with my HFDC. Unfortunately I don’t seem to have a good working cartridge for it so I can’t fully test it. After a lot of searching I found the setup specs that you need to know if you are going to use it: 17 Sectors, 2 Heads and 615 Cyclinders It should be noted that finding one of these drives in working condition will be tough. Find a good cartridge will be even tougher. Is it worth it? In my estimation it isn’t since you can find larger MFM drives much easier and I would trust the cartridges even if I got them to work.