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In article <3266@ibmpa.UUCP> mlewis@dolphin.tcspa.ibm.com (Mark S. Lewis) writes:
>> I tried TWO different Maxtor 4380 ESDI drives and got the same error.
>> Both are sitting in the corner of my office unused...
>
>A Maxtor drive that works is model XT-4380E (310 Meg).  The SAUTIL recognizes
>it as a 310e type drive.  If you cannot get any of your drives to work with
>the E-ESDI, perhaps you should regress to the standard ESDI controller.  It's
>better than having such fine drives going unused.

But I *have* an XT-4380E.  Two of them.  I set the switches to the same
as recommended for the 310e drive, which after all, is an XT-4380E, no?
I got consistent results from SAUTIL: "can't init drive" or something like
that--it's been about 6 months.  I've tried the disks in positions 0, 1 and
2 of the controller.  No luck.  What has your experience been with them?
I'm very eager to hear.

I don't have an ESDI (non-EESDI) controller, however.  The rationale
of fleshing out my disks with additional ESDI disks was that I could
get rid of my ST506 controller, which right now is running two non-IBM
disks along with the IBM 110mb ESDI disk as the root/boot on the EESDI
controller.


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