Fixing bad SyQuest 88mb carts with a SCSI verify?
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- In a previous Mail-Call video I had a SyQuest drive that wouldn't read any of the 88mb carts I had. Always a green flashing LED. I tested all of these carst in another drive (of unknown condition) and it also flashed the green LED and didn't read any of them. It seems I figured out a way to "revive" these disks and they are ALL working now!
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Adrian: “I might not have time to keep up with my release schedule “
Also Adrian: adds another channel
This channel is probably why. More power to it.
Has the feel of an LGR blerb channel. Love it!
Actually, i think main ADB is closer to Blerbs by that unscripted feel...
It's true, I never script anything! Clint once told me he often gets "complaints" from people asking him to be more like "Adrian Black" with the unscripted videos. LOL! This was before he started LGR Blerbs.
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 well that explains a lot. Lol I love the ecosystem of the retro community.
@@Zadorchai this ecosystem really isn’t that big, which makes it very humble! I couldn’t agree more!
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I stand by that you should rename this channel Adrian’s Analog Attic
You beat me to it!
Fixed without even a single drop of deoxit? 😆 Great work!
This is great. A second Adrian's basement channel! It doesn't matter at all what content you are presenting. I absolutely love all your videos!
More ADB???? It’s like Christmas is April! Woohoo. Life just got a little better!
Look at that! A second ADB channel! Have you considered setting up another channel that's just full of outtakes and other fails? You could call it Adrian's Digital Basement _III_ ...
Haha!!!!! I actually have a /// channel as well but I didn't intend to use it. But that is REALLY FUNNY!
And then when the ADB III channel does poorly, he can just make an ADB IIe, IIc and IIgs. The IIe channel would be for the generic everyman content, the IIc will be for the really short 'nibbles', and the IIgs will be his 4k content. The original ADB channel will however be restricted to only the highest paying Patreons.
All we really need is a channel of 8-bit Dance Party on a loop
A second channel is a great idea...you are one of the people which I could listen to for days without getting bored
That first disk you showed that had 64 mb on it, showed an empty volume, but a full trash can. Check the trash on that disk!
"But the screws are gone and its been opened so....I'm not gonna trust this one anymore."
Go on....You know you wanna!
I bat a microfiber cloth for glasses to clean the surface and new screws would do the trick.
I loved SyQuest back in those days.. people called me crazy for spending so much on that drive for only 44MB (was about as expensive as 2-3 40MB IDE drives), but at some point I had around two dozen disks for it, and it made things so much easier. I've gone through hundreds of shareware/PD games etc without having to worry about uninstalling and reinstalling stuff just to preserve space.
I love peripherals of this era and doing things just like this.
I don't think that syquest disks were dust-free anyway. You can probably smack some new screws in that one you took apart and it'd be fine.
The moving hands reminds me of Action Retro, nice.
"Adrian's Barfs!" I like that! As someone else said, I also seem to prefer the less fancy videos. They seem more watchable for some reason. Intros are kind of cheesy and jarring. I do really enjoy your videos regardless, they are very entertaining and informative. Your series on the Compaq Deskpro was one of my favorites. I know these aren't easy, so your time and effort is very appreciated.
Adrian's Digital Basement Too - Because it's Adrian's Digital basement as well.
Candy reviews: I skip over these on the main channel, but seems like good content for the 2nd channel. Enjoy your treats! :)
Hi Adrian,
- The 88 MB "C" means, that it can handle 44MB disks too.
- Disks get "corupted>" when they are insert into a Windowsbased machine, because dump windows does something on the first block of the fist cylinder so theys are nomore readable on Amigas or Macs.
- the 200MB -version handleas 44MB and 88MB also
Greets from Basel Switzerland
I feel like there should be an Adrian's Digital Attic to complement the basement. :)
Wooo 🥳 first video on this channel.
Also, candy review, maybe talk about childhood computer/tech experiences. Hobbies that lead to other hobbies. You would be surprised what we end up liking because of the tech we like
Hey, he could talk more about cars too!
Your hand gesturing game is on 8 bit show and tell level here. Quality with no editing is top notch in channel ][ !
Let’s go man!!! This is awesome. Wednesday is the highlight of my TH-cam week. This is just the extra sweetener now!!!
Adrian, you're always creating the best content, especially if you call this junk editing
More adrian? YES PLEASE!!!
ADB Shorts is a good name for the channel
Always love the second channels. So much more personable.
Love all your posts Adrian... one thing to note, I watch most of your stuff on the TV (big samsung in the living room and an LG OLED in the bedroom) ... neither of them allow typing in the "][" characters through the TV youtube app! It's terrible! Anyway, I still found your new channel and I am enjoying it all. - Jeffery, Raleigh, NC
Thank you Adrian! Two new videos in one day 👍 - Tony from Italy
I didn't see the 'II' so that was a very confusing moment for a second there!
"What?! There's an Adrian's Digital Basement video I missed? Wait, I'm not subscribed?!"
Ditto
I like the lighting in that spot.
Very cool! I've actually never seen a SyQuest drive in action before. What a cool concept!
I had seen SyQuest 44MB and 88MB disks for sale in a store circa 1996 (while looking at the then-new EZ-135 Drive and Zip Drive) but have never actually seen one used. Cool. I am more a fan of 3.5" (and lately 2.5") drives, but still cool.
I used Syquests in various graphics production jobs I had in the early 90s. They were pretty sketchy even when new. Really only safe for transferring large (then haha) files to print shops, etc, or redundant backup.
Thank you to let us take part of that awesome success with your new channel !
I have to say I much prefer this natural style of presentation than the more 'TH-cam-affected' style you seem to have adopted recently on your main channel.
Well, I suppose that is to give the different videos a more "familiar" or "brand-specific" feel to the videos. Like the Lockpicking Lawyer and his to-the-point, no fluff and no unnecesary crap, videos.
@@benitogomez7968 Lockpicking Lawyer is a great example of youtube affectation: nobody speaks like that in real life. His content is great, but I can't stand the way he talks. Contrast with someone like Jan Beta: even though he's ESL, his speech is so much more natural and easy to listen to.
I love how the Mac chimes as he finally finds a SyQuest 88MB cart... Accidental timing!
Love old tech, old games, and your content.
Perfectly good retro stuff that could have been given up on as faulty and discarded, but happily wasn't. I'm both glad about the fortunate outcome here, and a bit sad to think how much might be lost because of so many intricacies that no single person can know and be in control of. By the way, I came here after the mindblowing MAXI Mail Call Nr.44 from a couple of days later, I'm enjoying your content so much today!
adrian's digital blerbsment, awesome
Second channel? Today is a good day!
Maelstrom!!! I remember spending lots of time with it. 😁🚀
I smiled the second I saw that jazz drive, and recognized it instantly before you even said what it was. I used those on my Amiga 1200, and still have the disks and the drive, though I don't have a working Amiga at the moment. :( My jazz drive was one of the scsi ones. Unfortunately, those only ever seem to have come in scsi, and parallel-port versions. Dunno why they never made an IDE (that is, PATA) version. o0
I replaced Maelstrom sounds with ones extracted from Zappa songs using ResEdit back in the days...
I like this format too.
Second channel? Instant sub! You are my favourite retro channel. I read your comment about not scripting anything, and I like that. I think your enthusiasm and personality wouldn't come across so well if you tried to work too much to a script. While my level of tech knowledge means I don't always understand the detail of some of your repairs, it is all still never less than interesting to watch. I grew up with a C64, and love seeing you working with them, and all the other retro computers etc. Thanks for all the awesome content!
Adrian's digital crawlspace.
Or maybe with the candy.. Adrian's digital pantry.
That Star Trek folder might have the formula for Transparent Aluminum in it. ;)
No need to finesse this channel Adrian. The format works fine
I hope you're able to dump copies of those SyQuest cartridges to a flash drive.
Whoa! Second channel! This feels more like some of your older videos that I’ve been watching lately. Which I approve of, lower effort output is important too, and The Algorithm’s focus on consistency can really suck. Like, I like that your earlier output had more polished videos and also quicker ones. So it kinda sucks you had to make a second one for the latter kind but it’s good that you can do it again without screwing up your stats.
Now I'll patiently wait the next chapter...Live Streams!
The pc at the left of the mac classic is beautiful :) love them
I had that drive and several disks on my 386sx33 in 1993. Adaptec isa scsi card. Noisy and dog slow but so handy! I remember running Doom1 shareware version from it to save hard drive space.
I miss my syquest drive. The sound. Reminds me of 1994 when I used it as a ram drive to load up xwing and tie fighter
Read his Twitter post about the second channel, subscribed via TH-cam app right away even without the time to watch it first. Now I did, and I don't regret it. :-) Thank you Adrian!
I used these at work in the 1990s (44s, 88s, and Bernoulli drives). The head crash failure rate was probably 40%.
Syquest and Bernoulli boxes make me feel old!
Love the candy reviews! It's a lot of fun to watch. Congrats on the second channel -- definitely excited!
Great birthday present, thanks Adrian.
Hi Adrian channel woootooooo. Great place for candy/sweets/lollies review. I do enjoy seeing what comes from where. I'm in Australia and a lot of ours is same as UK but we've got a lot of our own... On the biscuit front - Tim Tams!
I still remember watching Inspector Gadget when I was a kid
@@aaronbrandenburg2441 lol. As time goes on more people don't know the character.... 😀😀
Hey Adrian, perhaps call the channel "Adrian's Digital Scraps" for the short video content. Why I have the feeling that you will struggle to keep the videos under 10 mins! 😁
nice, two channels of content
Love to be here mate. Bring em on! Be you mate!
Wow a second channel?! Subscribed lol
From Southampton UK.
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I think when HDDs spin up at the start the dust/rubbish gets thrown off and into a trap built in the housing, meaning that that disk may be ok if it's reassembled. Or you could blow the disks off with air first.
Love this content! Any 68k Mac content would do. Any retro computing or candy related content would do, to be honest.
Oh boy Syquest..... used to use these back in the day for backups at the Graphic Design firm I worked at. Yeah that didn’t last long, so unreliable. Then on to Jazz drives and finally to DAT backups. A really PITA to access but much more reliable.
This is a great tip-thank you!!
Hot swapping a drive before hot swapping was cool
Hah yeah, in a way!
I had a similar situation with a general ide drive and after letting windows going by its test's, it worked pretty well after.
I actually have one of these still, its a 200mb drive/disk but the unit I have is in the smaller form factor about 3 foppy's in terms of thickness
Loving the new channel, can't wait to see more on here!
OK, it's really you. Good. Subscribed.
Loved it!! Thanks for this video.
This ][-nd channel actually feels kind of “raw”. Great setting imho!
Maybe you should investigate further by re-trying one of the discs with the other drive, and run the same program. Maybe there's a mechanical issue that the test procedure somehow manages to fix. Worth a shot! Also, what's inside that box the drive is installed in? Is there some extra "jazz" needed for these drives to work?
Might be like Zip drives where the disks could have an incompatible driver file on it. Then the disk test probably replaced the driver and it worked fine. Not entirely sure, but I know that was the case with Zip disks, where the driver gets updated when you insert it in a computer with a newer driver and then that driver does not let the older machines work with it. Somewhere I have a few zip disks labelled warning about no using on newer computers because of driver updating.
This was fun! I'm one of the ones that does not like the sweets and candy stuff, I skip past it. :D
More Adrian Black content!! hooray! Keep up the great work man! I love your videos and all your candy reviews too, please keep up those too :D Thanks for the great great content you have been making these past years..
Wahoo, two channels!!!
I see a Motorola StarMax there!
Shhh -- I was trying to hide that. It's for a future video :-)
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 too late now Adrian lol
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Yeah, sorry. I spotted that instantly as well but then I worked on a bunch of them every day when I worked at Be.
Hyped for the candy reviews! lol
I just realized the initials of your channel are ADB...you could also call this new one ADB Peripheral
Have you tried the now working disks in the other drive again ? Could it be that the short tests exercised the disk mechanisms after long periods of not being used which restored functionality ? Would be an interesting test. Could also clarify your thoughts on the other drive somehow marking them as Bad in error.
wow! 88mb, I was only able to afford the 44mb version back then 😢
A headless video about retro Mac's, with shaky hand narration.
Cool, a new action retro episode....
really smart solution!
I love your videos!
Somebody still uses these antiques? I had a Syquest on my old Amiga 2500 fer crissesakes! lol. Have fun!
When will we get Adrian's Analog Attic?
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Adrian's Short & Sweet Basement?
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What monster doesn’t love a candy review?
Great video Adrian! Just wondering what were the specs of the Macintosh you were running? OS version? Also did you install a scsi card for this? I have a Syquest 5110 drive with 88mb tape also. I was hoping i could get it running on a Macintosh power G4 running on MacOS 8.6. any suggestions would help. Thank you.
Nice, insta sub. Bring on the candy reviews!
Also, that case to the left is really nice looking, I love it. Plain and beige, mmm.
We need our candy fix.
What’s this...a second channel?!
I was here!
I have that same drive hooked up to a 486 PC