i doubt these are in use anymore... MFM and RLL drives went the way of the dinosaur long ago.... there were some "transition" drives with an IDE interface attached to an MFM drive, most of these were seagate 40Meg drives that were in Compaq "portable" computers.... but that was in 1995 or 1996... i think because Compaq had bought more MFM drives than they needed, and had to adapt their overstock to an IDE (now better known as PATA) interface. to low-level format these drives, they could be disconnected from the IDE adapter board, and formatted with a MFM controller, then be reconnected to the IDE interface. unless you're running some version of DOS those old drives make better paperweights than storage media.