18 Feb
1999
18 Feb
'99
8:05 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Joe wrote:
I tried a ST-251-1 but it wouldn't work.
Here's the story:
I picked up a HP 9133XV drive with a bad drive in it. The XV is the one
that you can partion into 4 so that it looks like 4 HP 9895 floppy drives
to the system. It's the only hard drive that can be used on the HP 85, 150
and some of the others. This one has a Seagate ST-419 drive in. I replaced
it with a Seagate ST-251 that has the same number of heads but more tracks
and is smaller and faster. The system recognizes if but it won't format it.
It says that the drives are bad. I'd like to get it running again since the
XV drives are hard to find.
The 251 does have fewer sectors (17 vs 32). I don't know if that's why
it failed or not.
HP was fond of formatting hard drives at 256 bytes/sector. That is likely
the case with your ST-419.
- don
Joe