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Article #630Re: Incompatibility issues with Seagate hard disks & the TX chipset
From: hitalent
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
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Lonnie McClure wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:16:40 -0800 "Gary Robertshaw" <groberts@fix.net> > wrote: > > >I have the exact same model (ST-3851A), which was working on another > >computer. I have 2 TX-chipset boards, and niether of them can format this > >drive. I assumed it had gone bad. Maybe I'll try it on a different > >board... > > A kludgey solution might be to pick up a cheap ISA IDE card to install > temporarily, soley for the purpose of formatting the drive. > > ========================= > lmcclure1@mindspring.com the problem is Seagate ST-3XXX is a 5V TTL bus control TX is 3.3V TTL bus control interface, other is not. so some TX mother-board turn VIO to 3.45 or above
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