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From: andy@slcs.slb.com (Andy Hazlewood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: two questions about maxtor drives
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Date: 11 Jun 91 22:12:08 GMT
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First question: I have two Maxtor EXT-4380 drives.  These drives are soft
sectored.  Are there any pc controllers out there that would drive these
things?  The drives are not switchable to hard sectoring.  I assume they
would require some kind of ESDI controller.

Next question: I also have a Maxtor XT-1140.  This is an MFM drive.  As best
I can tell, head 0 has died on the drive.  Is there any way to mask out head
zero and just use the others?  I can't seem to move the partition table to
anything but head 0 cylinder 0.