Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Problems installing a second disk on a RT running 4.3 Message-ID: <1609@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 9 Feb 90 23:34:00 GMT References: <90038.193253ANKGC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 22 In article s33966r@kaira.hut.fi (Juha Hulkkonen) writes: >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. No, you're wrong. The format command on the "sautil" diskette will gladly write another configuration record if one does not exist. There seems to be another problem during the format process because I've had no success trying to format two different Maxtor 4380E ESDI drives on two different RTs with the EESDI adaptor. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu