From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI drives on PS/2 Model 80?
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:06:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: isucard.16874B85B.MLONG
Organization: CARD

In article <1992Oct1.195812.26718@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>                      
Me writes:                                                                      
                                                                                
>In article <16873C4CD.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu> MLONG@isucard.card.iastat
>>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.                          
>>>                                                                             
>>>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?                                                      
>>>                                                                             
>>>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                                                         
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>would os/2 recognize the drive as well?                                        
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Yes.  Only use DM to low level the disk.  Use OS/2 to FDISK and FORMAT.  The IB 
M ESDI controller supports translation, so you should not have to worry about   
>1024 cylinders.                                                                
We are using OS/2 on 150MB and 330MB Maxtor drives on PS/2 80.                  
                                                                                
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University