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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Large ESDI disk help
Message-ID: <764@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 06:27:21 GMT
References: <3325@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <3325@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> scott@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Scott Douglas) writes:
>We're running AOS 4.3 on an RT-6151 with an 'Extended ESDI' disk
>controller.  When trying to format a Fujitsu 2263 disk using the
>SAUTIL format utility we get failures (I/O error, Can't init drive).
>The disk vendor suggested that the disk requires a 16Mb controller,
>and that our controller is a 12Mb transver variety.

I tried TWO different Maxtor 4380 ESDI drives and got the same error.
Both are sitting in the corner of my office unused...

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Steve Dyer
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