Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls56!fortinp
From: fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Re: Minix and Miniscribe harddrives
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.215641.16642@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Summary: maybe...
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References: <33140@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 21:56:41 GMT

In article <33140@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, ma891424@lux.sait.edu.au (Turbo) writes:
> Has anyone had any experience porting Minix 1.3 to a standard XT with a
> Miniscribe 3650 (40Mb) hard disk, and a WX3 Western Digital Controller?
> 
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I initially had problems with my 3650 when first connected to my ST until
I removed jumper 3 from the drive; this junmper controls the "auto-park"
feature which would confuse the driver if there was no disk activity for 
about 15 seconds...  Maybe...

> - Dave.
> --
Good luck...
Pierre

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