Re: Identify 3.5" interal drives

[joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

J. L. Walters (bird@MCS.COM) wrote:
: I just acquired two Sony 3.5" internal disk drives. Model MP-F51W-03.

: Near the bottom of the label there is a string of numbers:
: 4-606-066-31.

Joe - Someone recently offered me a 1.44 mechanism, and I just looked and 
it's the same Model Number as you have. With that second string of 
numbers, the first 7 are the same as on mine. But, where your last 
numbers are -31, mine are -41. My guess is that number indicates when the 
mechanism was built.

If you had an empty 3.5" disk drive case, you can use the mechanism. 
It'll be treated as an 800k drive, unless you have a SuperDrive 
Controller Card....in which case the IIGS will recognize it for the 1.44 
that it is.

I got mine as a spare part. After my motherboard recently became 
terminally ill and had to be put out of its misery, I decided that I 
needed to amass spare parts, just in case...

Joe Kohn
http://www.crl.com/~joko