thw9759@ultb.UUCP (T.H. White) (04/07/89)
It seems that the controller that I have is a Western Digital controller with the following label on the top: ESDI ADAPTER 61-000151 WD1005A-ARM The 70meg drive has on the metal end of it a sticker that has the following: P/N 90X8528 70MB ESDI On the side sticker it has the following: Manufactured by IBM Corp. Rochester, NM USA Type: 0667 (so far there are no typo errors in the data above) The machine that I have been trying to run it in is a Reliant Clone 286 AT. Pictured in this months (April) Computer Shopper on page (107). It has a Phoneix 3.10 Bios chip in it with 1meg of memory at 1 wait state. It came with an RLL controller and a 65meg hard drive. I removed that controller and plugged mine in and plugged it to the 1.2 floppy and the esdi drive. It runs the floppy ok and the heads drop on the hard drive but when I run Disk Manager it gives initialization errors. I need the vital parameters for the drive like number of heads, sectors per track, write-precomp, Ecc, landing-zone, etc. to feed into Xenix. If anyone has an IBM ESDI 70 MEG HARD DRIVE, please write mail stating some of the specs so that maybe I could get XENIX to run on it. I'm in no position to make ROM chips or spend lots of money on anything. I'm poor like everyone else, except worse. If I can't get it to work, I will give up and sell it probably (if I can) otherwise use as a paper weight. Thank you for any help. CRASH