Re: Sun MFM hard disk controller for Lisa?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Patrick Sch�fer <Patrick.Schaefer@topmail.de> wrote in message
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> This is not really an Apple II problem, but perhaps someone can help me.
>
>
> I just bought a Lisa 2/5. The computer has an internal hard drive
> upgrade made by Sun Remarketing. It consists of a regular Kalok 320 MFM
> or RLL drive and a controller card with Omti chipset.
>
>  Currently it
> doesn't do anything, it doesn't even spin up.
>

I  can't help you with the more complicated problems, but it's pretty common
for a drive that has sat for 10 or 15 years to stick and not spin up. Remove
the drive and give it a snap with your wrist. The idea is to use the inertia
of the platters to budge them a bit, so rotate the drive in the plane of the
platters and suddenly reverse direction.

A good source of Lisa info is:

http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/lisa/

Good luck,
-Paul