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- From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: The trouble with ESDI
- Message-ID: <phil.714789861@adam.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:44:21 GMT
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- Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia
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- I am having problems with the following ESDI configuration:
-
- Drive:
- model ST2383E
- size 337M
- head 7
- cyl 1747
- spt 54
-
-
- Controller:
- model WD1007A-WA2
- mode WD1005-WAH
- sector translation enabled
-
-
- The problem is that when the drive is accessed the computer locks-up for
- about a short time, and then it works. An example to demonstrate the
- problem:
-
- 1. Time to low-level format: 8hrs
- Time for a surface analysis: 60hrs
- Time for a DOS format: 8hrs
-
- There is obviously something drastically wrong here, but I don't know what
- it is at the moment.
-
- Has anyone got this combination successfully functional before?
-
-
- Regards,
- Phil.
-
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