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- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Help getting a friend's XT/disk running?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.203512.23714@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug25.152643.19701@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:35:12 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- pete@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com (Pete Lyall) writes:
-
- >I have a question for you gurus whose expertise dates back to the
- >PC/XT days....
-
-
- >A friend has a PC/XT whose hard disk has allegedly gone bad. I arrived
- >here simply to find the drive out of the chassis. It's a Seagte
- >ST-213.
-
-
- >First question: is the ST-213 a 10Mb drive? A 20? a 40? My friend
- >_thinks_ it's a 40Mb, but that sounds wrong. This is a true
- >blue XT, and I though they could only handle wither 10 or 20 MB
- >drives.
-
- It's been so long I'm not certain, but I believe it's a 10.
-
- >If we were to try to repair the beast (he'd really like to), I doubt
- >we could find another ST-213 (or could we, and if we could, would we
- >want to?)
-
- You probably wouldn't want to, and repairing a drive that old is not cost
- effective. Buy a new drive, even if it means a new controller.
-
- >Also - since the XT had no CMOS, how would we go about installing
- >another sized drive , say like a 40mb unit?
-
- Typically, there are jumpers to set on the disk controller for the size of
- the drive. You are probably limited to 10 or 20mb.
-
- >All help is graciously received and gratefully appreciated.
-
- I hope this _was_ useful; like I said it's been a while (but I installed
- a >few< back then...).
-
- -JTT
-