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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: disk drive/controller question
Message-ID: <1195@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 21:41:38 GMT
References: <2252@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2252@iscuva.ISCS.COM> bruceo@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Bruce Oscarson) writes:
<I just tried to install a MAXTOR model XT-1085 hard disk in my
<IBM pc-xt.  I attempted to do a low level format on the drive
<by going into debug and issuing: -c800:5.  The system hung.  I
<tried the same procedure with the original segate hard disk with
<the same results.  I also tried every offset from 0 to 50.
<The hard disk controller in my pc-xt is an IBM 1501492.
<
<Any suggestions on how to initiate a low level hard disk format
<for this environment?

Buy a new controller! The controllers IBM put in the XT do *not* have
built-in low level format routines. To do a low level format on an XT
you had to use the Advanced Diagnostics disk *and* set some jumpers to
tell the card what kind of drive was hooked up. <blech>.

I doubt that that controller will support your new drive. Get a Western
Digital controller, say an XT-GEN or the like and *then* that C800:5
address will work.

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