30 Jul
1998
30 Jul
'98
7:42 a.m.
I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a PC in order to
reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2 heads
1047 cylinders, 42 Mb IDE). MS-DOS chokes on anything over 1024 cylinders
so I tried to run it on the PC with the cylinders set at 1024 and 1047 but
the system said "Drive 0: initialization failure" every time. Does anyone
know what drive geometry the Grid uses? I don't *think* the drive is
actually bad since I got past this point with the drive installed in the
Grid. Will the Grids boot from the external floppy drive? If so, does
anyone have one that I can borrow long enough to reload DOS and FastLynx?
Joe
30 Jul
30 Jul
10:15 a.m.
Try the "translated" parameters of 977 cyl / 5 hd / 17 spt for that drive
since your controller is restricted to drives under 1024 cyl's.
Joe wrote:
I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a
PC in order to
reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2 heads
1047 cylinders, 42 Mb IDE). MS-DOS chokes on anything over 1024 cylinders
so I tried to run it on the PC with the cylinders set at 1024 and 1047 but
the system said "Drive 0: initialization failure" every time. Does anyone
know what drive geometry the Grid uses? I don't *think* the drive is
actually bad since I got past this point with the drive installed in the
Grid. Will the Grids boot from the external floppy drive? If so, does
anyone have one that I can borrow long enough to reload DOS and FastLynx?
Joe
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Russ Blakeman
RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
ICQ UIN #1714857
AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
* Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
--------------------------------------------------------------------
10:42 a.m.
Joe wrote:
I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a PC in order to
reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2
heads
Some Conner drives have a built in translation table, and I think that
includes the 3044. On a PC, a type 17 (40 MB, can't remember the
details) is usually the type that was used with the 40 MB drives. I
don't have it handy now, but Conner also has/had the data sheets on most
of their drives online, and will include the appropriate translations
that can be used with the drive.
10:53 a.m.
Marvin wrote:
Joe wrote:
I've already posted the translated parameter, must have crossed in the mail.
Conner is owned by Seagate now and all Seagate and Conner spec sheets can be
found at http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/specs/modelno.shtml
Nice bookmark to have for those that get lots of drives to test and need
instant jumper and parameter info.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Russ Blakeman
RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
ICQ UIN #1714857
AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
* Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a PC in order to
reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2
heads
Some Conner drives have a built in translation table, and I think that
includes the 3044. On a PC, a type 17 (40 MB, can't remember the
details) is usually the type that was used with the 40 MB drives. I
don't have it handy now, but Conner also has/had the data sheets on most
of their drives online, and will include the appropriate translations
that can be used with the drive.
9959
days inactive
9959
days old
3 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
marvin＠rain.org -
rhblake＠bbtel.com -
rigdonj＠intellistar.net