Maxtor 8051A negative Maxtor 8051A circuit board from the map board, we felt, 3.25-inch drive circuit board integrated in the chip already has made substantial progress. The Maxtor 8051 A is in fact its acquisition by the Miniscribe production, its projected production date should be after the 1991. The drive with 40 MB capacity, 32 KB cache, and 28 ms average access time.
Lee of Manassas, Virginia sent us an interesting note about the 8051A:
I got my hands on one of these drives, and while it may sound like a stepper, it’s not — I opened it, and it uses a rather odd actuator, sort of the converse of a rotary voice coil (it works the same way, only the coil is stationary and the magnet moves). I’m fairly sure this drive uses embedded-sector servo. By the way, compare the squeal it makes on startup to the one the Maxtor 7120 (and possibly the 7040 or 7080) makes. They’re pretty close, and apparently, so is the hardware. It would seem this drive was pretty much ancestral to the entire 7000 series, and by extension the DiamondMaxes of today (which, if you check the labels, still have the old Miniscribe-style HDA/FIRMWARE/UNIQUE/UPLEVEL and date code stamps on them). MiniScribe may no longer exist as such, but their legacy, such as it is, is definitely still with us.
| Performance | 0.30 | Reliability | AA2 |
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