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Join me as I'm reviewing this Micropolis 1558 ESDI hard drive - a 5.25" full-height beast with 338 MB of storage. Armed with an Adaptec ACB-2322B controller, I dive into the history of ESDI, explore its technical quirks, and navigate compatibility hurdles across various systems. From BIOS setups to formatting attempts and unexpected setbacks (including the dreaded smell of burnt electronics), this journey turned out to not (yet) find a happy ending. 00:00 Intro 00:35 ESDI - The Enhanced Small Disk Interface 04:01 Hands-on Exploration To support TPC, check out all my options on https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuale Stutz @alishamanuelastutz Christian Zerrahn @JARVIS1187 David Shell @TheMinocula Waseem al sammane @wsammane THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: HMK @hmichaelkraut7968 John DiLiberto @JohnMDiLiberto Jack Rosenthal @JackRosenthal1 Matthew Veety @MatthewVeety MS-DOS Manfred @msdosm4nfred Steven Glogger @sglogger xcalibur839 @xcalibur839 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2024 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see links). Theme Music composed by Abdallah El-Ghannam. https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam Additional music featured by rootkitty https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty Links: Adaptec ACB-2322B Documentation: https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/adaptec-acb-2322b http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/adaptec/pc/ACB-2322B_AT_ESDI/ACB232XB_UM.pdf http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/acb2322b_ig.pdf About Micropolis, and the 1558 Drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis_Corporation https://www.micropolis.com/support/hard-drives/1558-15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers http://thetechpage.mirror.kb1max.com/cgi-bin/db/db.cgi_displayItem=911 http://www.franken-online.de/ymmv/files/MIC1558.pdf ESDI and ST-506: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Small_Disk_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506/ST-412 https://www.huinck.net/kabel/ca_ESDI.html https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5170/cards/5170_hard_floppy_controller_cabling_info.htm IBM XT-286 Mainboard Reference: https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5162/motherboard/5162_motherboard_revisions.htm