15 Jul
2026
15 Jul
'26
11:55 a.m.
In the past I had a QD21 and ESDI drives. What controller were the
Fujitsu drives connected to originally? There maybe some kind of
proprietary format on them that the QD21 doesn't understand.
Does the QD21 see or sense the drives?
Doug
On 7/15/2026 11:17 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Well, I have gotten the diags to come up, after
getting an EPROM dump
from Glen Slick. THANKS, Glen!
Now, the problem is to get the NOV RAM configured for these drives.
I have two Fujitsu ESDI drives that should have working VMS systems on
them. I first tried coming up with my own drive parameters, that
didn't work. Then, I tried setting the drive to type 2 (get
parameters from drive automatically), that didn't work either.
The small drive I have has some numbers written down on the bad block
list paper, I will try those but it doesn't look like enough numbers.
Anyway, the drives I have are:
Fujitsu M2246E and Fujitsu M2263E. The manual does list the
parameters for the M2246E, I will have to try those. But, I have no
parameters for the M2263E. Does anybody know where to get these
config parameters for the M2263E? That is the drive that was used
most recently, so I would prefer to get that one running.
Thanks much for any help!
Jon