From: Me
Subject: Re: ESDI drives on PS/2 Model 80?
Reply-To: Me
Organization: Me
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 19:58:12 GMT

In article <16873C4CD.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu> MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.233711.24112@unocal.com>                                                                                                        
>stctmkf@st.unocal.com (Marc Furon) writes:                                                                                                            
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>>I have a Maxtor 380MB ESDI drive that a friend of mine would like to use                                                                             
>>on his PS/2 Model 80.  He tried to connect the drive to the computer (it                                                                             
>>has an IBM ESDI controller)--the drive spins up, but the machine doesn't                                                                             
>>see the drive out there.                                                                                                                             
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>>According to the information he got, the IBM ESDI controller requires                                                                                
>>special information to be on cylinder 0 (track 0?).  If that information                                                                             
>>isn't there, the machine won't recognize the drive.                                                                                                  
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>>Now the question--how can I get that information recorded on the drive?                                                                              
>>The drive is believed to be functional, so I think all I need is to get                                                                              
>>that information out there in the format the IBM controller expects.                                                                                 
>>Does anyone know of a formatting program that can do this?  Or what are                                                                              
>>the other alternatives?                                                                                                                              
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>>Comments welcome...thank you!                                                                                                                        
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>Use Disk Manager from Ontrack, it worked for us with mod 80 and Maxtor ESDI                                                                           
>drives.                                                                                                                                               
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>Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
>Iowa State University                                                                                                                                 


would os/2 recognize the drive as well?