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- From: thomas@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Richard A. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Is the maxtor 213 meg a good buy at $470?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.203948.6150@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
- References: <jpl1.714232047@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:39:48 GMT
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- jpl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:
- : I will also order a new controller card because mine does not have a
- : "user-definable" drive type 47. (mine is pre-defined) But first
- : I will try to find a "close" type and see if I can get it to run --
- : with maybe the loss of a few megs. any comments?
- : patrick
-
- I just purchased a Maxtor 7213A IDE drive, and after staying up
- until 3 a.m., I have some questions.
-
- I already had a Maxtor LXT-200A IDE drive and a Miniscribe IDE
- controller.
-
- First question. Both of these drives require that you use a
- user-defined type 47, and my AMI BIOS allows that. What isn't
- clear is whether Type 47 has to be the same Type 47 for both drives.
- (Maxtor recommends different definitions since the 7213A holds about
- 10 more MBytes.) So does a BIOS allow Type 47 to mean different
- things for different disk drives?
-
- 2. If the answer to 1. is ``yes'', is that ``yes, always'' or ``yes
- only if they are not hooked up as master and slave on the same IDE
- controller?
-
- 3. I ended up making both Type 47s the same (the values recommended
- for the lower capacity LXT-200A). I made the 7213A the master (factory
- default jumpers), and added a jumper to the LXT-200A to make it a slave.
- To keep the cluster size down to 2048 bytes, I made the 7213A a primary
- partition, "C:", and an extended partition with one logical drive, "D:".
- I made the LXT-200A one extended partition divided into two logical
- drives, "E:" and "F:". Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Del will boot up ok, but
- usually I get the message instructing me to insert a BOOT disk in drive A:
- and press any key. I ignore inserting a boot disk and press any key and
- it boots fine. (There is a long pause after the Ctrl-Alt-Del before it
- comes up with this message.) What did I do wrong? The controller is
- the one which came with the LXT-200A, would a newer IDE controller make
- a difference?
-
- By the way, I wasn't getting anywhere until I connected each drive to
- the controller individually, as a master, and partitioned it and formatted
- it before reconnecting them together as master and slave. When both
- were on the controller and the master (7213A) hadn't been partitioned and
- formated yet, it will usually report that it couldn't access disk 2, or
- sometimes that there was a HDD controller failure and couldn't access
- either of them. These message went away after I connected each separately
- and partitioned and formated them.
-