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Article #1840Re: Large ESDI disk help
From: Mark S. Lewis
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 17:20
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 17:20
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> >We're running AOS 4.3 on an RT-6151 with an 'Extended ESDI' disk > >controller. When trying to format a Fujitsu 2263 disk using the > >SAUTIL format utility we get failures (I/O error, Can't init drive). > >The disk vendor suggested that the disk requires a 16Mb controller, > >and that our controller is a 12Mb transver variety. > > 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. =====----- Mark S. Lewis, IBM AWD Palo Alto -----====== inet: mlewis%ibmsupt@uunet.uu.net (415) 855-4486 uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!mlewis IBM Tie Line: 465-4486
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ibmpa!dolphin.tcspa.ibm.com!mlewis From: mlewis@dolphin.tcspa.ibm.com (Mark S. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Large ESDI disk help Message-ID: <3266@ibmpa.UUCP> Date: 13 Dec 89 17:20:39 GMT References: <764@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <3325@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@ibmpa.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: IBM AWD, Palo Alto Lines: 18