Kalok Octagon KL-320 Vintage MFM Hard Disk Raw Video Part I: BIOS Formatting

Hello and welcome to this unedited raw video of the Kalok Octagon KL-320 MFM hard disk drive with 20 MB storage capacity being formatted with the BIOS internal formatting tool. The sound is produced by beautiful, unique sounding stepper motor of the Kalok drive, which successors have been reported as unreliable.
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[@Nemesizzonline]

Nice one, never heard of that brand (Kalok Octagon), but it almost sounds like an old clock (must be the read/write head that's busy that makes that noise).

[@intel386DX]

:) I did't try to format MFM drives from 386 BIOS :) I usually do this from controller BIOS by debug :) on my 8088

[@erikbeljan1035]

I have a 105MB IDE one with no bad sectors and Win 3.1 loaded on it sitting on the table in front of me. The noise that thing makes, exactly the same in the 105MB version.

[@NowAndyPlays]

you could sell that drive from 100-200€ ish

[@sergiofls7623]

Great Sound

[@julianholostinin651]

Cool

[@HARDWARECOP]

Thanks alot!

[@julianholostinin651]

HARDWARECOP du kannst mit mir deutsch schreiben ^^
Du bist ja deutscher oder

[@HARDWARECOP]

Julian Holostinin Ach, stimmt, ich bin deutsch ^^ Tut mir Leid aber dass ich nicht wissen konntest dass Du es auch bist ;)