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- From: tjwu@athena.mit.edu (Thomas J Wu)
- Subject: Re: The trouble with ESDI
- In-Reply-To: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au's message of 26 Aug 92 00:44:21 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:10:26 GMT
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- In article <phil.714789861@adam.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
-
- > 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
-
- This is exactly the configuration I have in my 386 box running both Unix
- and DOS. It has a Micronics 386/33 motherboard.
-
- > 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?
-
- I've had no problems with this setup at all. Formatting and surface
- analysis took well under an hour when I installed Unix. How do you
- have the drive set up in your BIOS? I can look up my CMOS configuration
- if you need.
-
- > Regards,
- > Phil.
- >
- > --
- > _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au
- > / \ Departmental Engineer Phone: +61 8 228 5914
- > \_.-*_/ Dept. of Psychology Fax: +61 8 224 0464
- > v University of Adelaide Mail: GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001
-
- Thomas Wu
- Internet: tjwu@athena.mit.edu
-