On 2/5/22 17:13, Jerry Wright via cctalk wrote:
  I'm going through? a few of my ESDI? and MFM hard
drives? and ran across?2 Maxtor? XT 2190 drives with? all of the Drive Id's (1-4) tie
together with 1 long
 jumper and the drives have the write protect jumper is installed.? Not sure what
theywould have been used for ??? Both are the same.
 Jerry 
Seems to me that this would be a read-only drive accessible on any unit.
 Why?  Maybe holding diagnostic software?
--Chuck