29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
5:56 p.m.
The older drives have the settings printed on the top of the drive cyl heads
sectors etc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk
I'd try Spinrite on it. I don't recall offhand if it will determine
effective geometry, but it would be the next most likely of any disk
tool I've ever used.
First most likely would be GNU/Linux sfdisk. Read the man page
*carefully* first.
Doc
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, TeoZ wrote:
>
>>The oldest IDE drive I have thats being used at all is a 500mb conner
drive,
>>and it spins up and works fine on newer
hardware. Make sure you using
auto
>>detect in the bios or try changing the method
your machine uses to read
the
drive (LBA, 32 bit access, pio modes etc)
That might be the problem. The drive may have been formatted under
incorrect parameters. If this is the case, can the parameters be
ascertained somehow?