You may be able to find a MFM controller, but it may not work with any of
the mother boards past the 368 or 486 era.

As for the new mother boards, the expansion slots would not be compatible,
and also the BIOS may not see the MFM controller.

What I would do, is get an older working computer that has MFM drive
support, and put everything to floppies to transfer it across. Networking a
very old dos computer to a Windows based computer may not be worth the
effort.

I would be curious to know why you did not have everything backed up on
floppies or something in the first place?

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JANA
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I need to find at least one MFM HDD/floppy controller card to try to
get into my old system. My billing files and some other programs which
I would like to back up are on on these drives. I think my controller
failed. I could really use another of these drives if anyone has one
also but if not I would be happy just to find a controller board
initially. I'm running two Seagate St251 drives. I've looked just
about everywhere for these things. If anyone has any of this old
stuff lying around they don't need and would like to sell, (or part
with, or whatever), please let me know. I would be very grateful.
Thank you. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.