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Article #594Re: Large ESDI disk help
From: Steve Dyer
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 06:27
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 06:27
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In article <3325@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> scott@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Scott Douglas) writes:
>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...
--
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!snorkelwacker!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Large ESDI disk help Message-ID: <764@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 06:27:21 GMT References: <3325@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Distribution: usa Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 14