Hi guys,
Does anyone have a spare 5.25-inch half-height MFM or RLL ("ST506"
interface) hard drive?
I'm trying to resurrect an AT&T UNIX PC, but its Microscience HH-1090
drive is basically a brick. I can format it with the Diagnostics disk,
but the install floppy falls down when it tries to 'mkfs' the root
filesystem. Running mkfs manually produces a "write error" message.
Mapping the bad block doesn't help in the least, and the diag floppy
reports 76 bad block table (remap) entries when I run the S4TEST (expert
mode) disk diagnostic...
Anything <= 1400 cylinders and 8 heads would work fine (though I could
always lie to the machine and specify a lower head and cylinder count)
but ideally I need (cylinders * heads * 16 * 512) to be >= 40MB.
There's a bit more about this requirement and why here --
http://unixpc.taronga.com/faq/part2/faq-doc-6.html
The machine may have a WD2010 controller (I'm not sure, I need to crack
'er open and check) but it certainly doesn't have the P5.1 upgrade PAL.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/