Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!santra!s33966r From: s33966r@kaira.hut.fi (Juha Hulkkonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Problems installing a second disk on a RT running 4.3 Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 18:49:07 GMT References: <90038.193253ANKGC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: ANKGC@CUNYVM's message of 8 Feb 90 00:32:53 GMT In article <90038.193253ANKGC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ANKGC@CUNYVM (Anil Khullar) writes: > > Hi everybody, > > I am having trouble installing a second 310 M hard disk (A MAXTOR drive > which I removed from a PS2/80) on a RT 6150. It > has an ESDI adapter and is running ACIS/4.3. The machine currently has > a 310M disk in drive C. > Maxtor XT-4380 E hard disk (as well as all other ibm esdi-drives) has a certain configuration block written on disk. This configuration block (sector) contains such information as : No of bytes per sector, no of heads, no of cylinders, no of sectors per track etc ... and ASCII text 'IBM HARDFILE TYPE XXX' and type number in hexadecimal. So you are not able to change RT and PS drives even if they look like the same. Sorry. BTW the configuration block is written on physical track 0, physical head 0 and sector 2 .... > > Thanks in advance. > > Anil Khullar email: anil@eleni.gc.cuny.edu > PhD program in Psychology, ank@cunyvms1.BITNET > City Univ of New York. > (212) 642 2705 -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Juha Hulkkonen s33966r@kaira.hut.fi + + hogan @otax.tky.hut.fi + + tel. +358-0-794899 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++