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From: damour@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard disk problems.
Message-ID: <7700001@osiris>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 11:17:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 11:17:00 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 20:51:02 EST
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Nf-From: osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU!damour    Dec  4 10:17:00 1986


                ****** line eater food *****

Hello out there!  I have a question that perhaps some one of you has
the answer to.  My office has an IBM PC with 2 floppies and an
expansion module that came with a 10 Meg hard disk, controlled by a
Xebec hard disk controller.  We received a Seagate ST 238 30 Meg hard
disk and a SMS/OMTI 5527A controller card.  Here's the problem:  the
OMTI card encrypts the data (RLL ?) so that the ST 238 will store 30
Meg instead of 20 Meg.  (At least that's what I have been told.)  The
10 Meg hard disk does not want to work off of the OMTI card.  I was
told that the 10 Meg can't support the encryption and that's why it
won't work.  Well, my next step was to leave both cards in the
expansion chasis with the OMTI card jumpered so that the BIOS would be
at a different HEX address.  It didn't work.  This silicon beast
refused to acknowlege that the 30 Meg Seagate (drive d:) existed.  I
also was getting a "1701" error when I booted the machine.  If I take
either controller card out then the "1701" error goes away.  I have now
been told that I might need to reset the IRQ level of one of the cards,
does anybody have any thoughts on the matter?  Thanks in advance,

Chris D'Amour - A Biologist With A Mission!

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