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From: lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Dwarf Disk Drives
Summary: Need to make them full-sized
Keywords: ESDI, DN-XX00, Maxtor
Message-ID: <2437@polari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 18:53:23 GMT
Organization: MDL Corporation, Bellevue, WA (206) 643-7333
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I have a couple of Maxtor XT8760E disk drives connected to a DN-3500, and
have run into a couple of problems:
   1. INVOL reports that the disks have 650 megabytes of storage available
      (instead of 697, as expected).
   2. Power-on diagnostics fail at the first disk test:
      Self test failed
      Test #1
      Expected 00000000 actual=00000011 addr=01001000 pc=00007B24
   3. Mnemonic Debugger commands attempting to access the drive(s) fail,
      but DEX works perfectly and reports no problems.

I've tried 2 Western Digital controllers and two different disk drives. (A
third Western Digital controller was D.O.A., and didn't see any disks.)

As usual, Customer Support had no clues, and so far I've had no word from
R & D.

Any suggestions?

Michael Lampi