Micropolis Mustang 4540A hard drive sounds - The end of an era...

Here's the rare Micropolis Mustang 4540A drive that was in the big lot of 38 drives I got in April.

This drive kinda marks the end of an era, being the last drive series that Micropolis made before they want bankrupt in 1997. Originally being a manufacturer of high end drives in the 80s, they didn"t quite make it to the modern era, ending with these IDE offerings. They also made SCSI units using the same HDA design, that they called Stinger.

Sadly this drive is in insanely bad condition, with bad sector patterns across the entire drive (probably a bad head or electronic issue?) I still managed to get it to hold a FAT16 partition (thanks to the file system taking so little space), boot Windows 98 and even run SimCity 3000 despite its issues. While it's a bad exemple of one, it still allowed me to demonstrate how it sounds like. I've been wanting a Micropolis for a long time, so I'm glad it's not completely dead at least.