andy@slcs.slb.com (Andy Hazlewood) (06/12/91)
First question: I have two Maxtor EXT-4380 drives. These drives are soft sectored. Are there any pc controllers out there that would drive these things? The drives are not switchable to hard sectoring. I assume they would require some kind of ESDI controller. Next question: I also have a Maxtor XT-1140. This is an MFM drive. As best I can tell, head 0 has died on the drive. Is there any way to mask out head zero and just use the others? I can't seem to move the partition table to anything but head 0 cylinder 0.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun11.221208.8786@slcs.slb.com> andy@slcs.slb.com (Andy Hazlewood) writes: | First question: I have two Maxtor EXT-4380 drives. These drives are soft | sectored. Are there any pc controllers out there that would drive these | things? The drives are not switchable to hard sectoring. I assume they | would require some kind of ESDI controller. DTC. I have two. I would love to be able to run with some other controller... still, the price was right. I don't know you *can't* use other controllers, but DTC "came with." -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me