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From: tim@yenta.alb.nm.us (Tim Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help finding heads/cyc on PS/2 Harddrive
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.042951.28470@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Date: 29 Apr 91 04:29:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.172318.25212@yenta.alb.nm.us> <91118.164155U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
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Yes, fit is a ESDI, but i can't reformat it without knowing how many heads
and cyclendars it has.  From what i have heard, is that when PS/2 drives
are shipped out fro the factory, they are formatted in some "special" way
and will not work on a "regular" ISA type machine.

From what i understand i can reformat this drive so that it is again
"normal", but it would not be able to work in a PS/2 again after doing
this.  In any event, nobody seems to know antything about this kind
of stuff, including IBM  -  at least the people if 
of stuff, including IBM - atleast the people i have talked to -- Everyone
pleads ignorance.

tim