Vintage Seagate ST-157A 45MB IDE Hard Drive — BOOTS DOS, FULLY TESTED — PERFECT For Sale
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Vintage Seagate ST-157A 45MB IDE Hard Drive — BOOTS DOS, FULLY TESTED — PERFECT
Price: US $89.97
American seller and member for over 20 years.
RARE Vintage Seagate ST-157A-1 IDE hard drive 45MB. NEAR MINT CONDITION — MUSEUM QUALITY! Early, Classic Seagate hard drive — Seagate's very first IDE drive. This is the high-speed version: "-1" indicates 28ms (vs standard 40ms). SN: 87664798
Originally purchased directly from Seagate distribution July 19, 1991 for our PC production.
Removed by our service dept decades ago during a routine upgrade and has been in protected storage since.
Booted right up after all these years. No stiction issue.
Drive is quiet, no unusual noises.
Drive has been fully wiped (to delete customer data) and reformatted.
MS-DOS 6.22 freshly installed.
Scandisk full surface scan shows zero errors (see screenshot).
Chkdsk shows zero bad sectors (see screenshot).
Should boot right up in any compatible system.
In order to boot, the drive parameters must be set as formatted : CHS = 560/6/26.
560/6/26 are the native CHS parameters and give the highest capacity.
Different CHS translation parameters can be used (ex. 733/7/17 or 1024/5/17), but will require reformatting.
Clean, NEAR MINT condition.
You will receive exactly the item you see in the photos.
Shipped via fast USPS Ground Advantage with full tracking. Shipped from a USPS regional SCF (Sectional Center Facility) so delivery anywhere within the U.S. is only a few days away (excluding the occasional USPS misdirect).
