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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: <1992Aug29.150438.11058@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug27.033810.14163@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:04:38 GMT
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- gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes:
- :
- : That is the configuration that I am running. And with no problems at
- : all. The older LXT213 happens to be the master (it was before) and the new
- : LXT7213 is the slave. I just connected it, fdisked it, formatted it, and used
- : it. My "controller" card is a cheap "do it all" multi i/o board that I've had
- : for about a 2 years. The type 47 issue is bios dependent, but every one I've
- : had direct experience with (that even had a type 47) actually has two spots in
- : the table for the drive parameters.
- :
- : /s/ Bob Gettys
-
- Thank you for your reply. An e-mail message also confirmed that you CAN
- have both disks as Type 47 but with different definitions for what Type
- 47 means stored in the CMOS. (That is, what the user puts into CMOS
- under Type 47 is specific to the disk for which the entries are made.)
-
- Unfortunately, we do NOT have the same configuration. My older Maxtor
- disk is the LXT-200A not the LXT-213A, which is the Maxtor 200 Mbyte
- IDE drive of the generation preceding the LXT-213A. So perhaps that
- is why it doesn't work. Or it may have something to do with the AMI BIOS
- (dated April 9, 1990). I will try making the LXT-200A the master and the
- 7213A the slave. I had hoped that by staying with the same manufacturer
- I could get two IDE drives that were compatible, but I may have been
- wrong.
-