... Future Domain, Trantor, Iomega, Western Digital, (and a number of clones of the WD), and, of course, NCR. later to become SYMBIOS. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Pechter" <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:37 PM Subject: Re: IBM-PC and SCSI Tour"

Hello, I'm in need of one or two 32MB (8x32 or 8x36) 72pin SIMMS, 70ns or better. Not sure if it matters, but they'll be going into Macs. I have (4) 16MB 72pin 60ns SIMMS to offer in trade, plus some 4MB 30pin SIMMS, cash or other parts. Please let me know if you can help. Bill

IIRC, the first "SCSI drives" on PC's were hooked up with some sort of bridge controller, e.g. XEBEC 1410. What puzzles me here is that I have had several Fujitsu MB22-somethings that're not 5-1/4" and not small (capacity-wise) like that though they significantly predate the PC era.. Is it possible that the drive is malfunctioning in some way, hence misrepresenting its size? I can't imagine a relatively aware company like Fujitsu, which was a leader in the hard disk market even well before the PC wasting the resources on a femto drive like that, as that was even smaller in capacity than an 8" floppy drive. The Fujitsu drives I've got from that era and others I've seen were ST506 types or 8" SA1000-compatibles, or used SMD as their host interface. They did make SCSI and IPI drives as well, but I avoided them because they (the SMD and IPI drives) tend to be rather heavy. Why do you believe that this drive is 1 MB in capacity? Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:45 PM Subject: Re: IBM-PC and SCSI say

I downloaded the Memtest86 program and ran it on my HP Pavillion (typical K6-2 366 w98 box) and it passed after an all night run. Trouble is now the darn thing won't boot from the hard drive, reporting NO OS. The hard drive just clicks for a minute or so, then I get the No OS message. I have booted from a floppy, and plan to try booting from the CD, but looks like I may be making a trip to Fry's et al for a dose of Norton or some such to try and repair it. OTOH tomorrow is TRW hamfest, so I bet I can pick up something cheap. This is more of a warning than asking for help, but I will list a few details in case something is obvious. Memtest86 downloads to a folder with rawwrite, a .bin image, and a installer script that looks like it runs with a MS installer of some kind in a DOS window. It took me a couple tries to get a good floppy formatted and Memtest86 installed and working on it (you install to a floppy and boot up, and I set the test to running and left it all night. This morning I selected Exit from the test, and the hard drive started making a clicking resetting sound and hasn't worked correctly since. I have to wait for the HD to time out, then I can go into setup, which I did selecting load defaults and reseting the configuration. No change. Booting from a W98 floppy, scandisk doesn't see a drive and I haven't been willing to mess with it much via fdisk. Like I said, not really a call for help, just a this is what I did and where it got me, so be carefull with memtest86.

Looks like simple drive go splort. Maxtor diagnostic shows, reset pass, recal fail, and tells me to call customer support with error code UK. Lots of warranty left, and I already popped another Maxtor, a 18 GB, into the system and its formatted and being restored right now. I'm chalking it up to another notch for the wish I done a backup recently, but I was planning on a full restore soon to tackle a no sound problem. I wish the people that design drive bays and the people who design 3.5" to 5.25" adapters could meet each other, and perhaps later be fed to rats, but overall not too painfull. With the recovery just started, and 4 hours til I want to leave for TRW hamfest, sleep isn't looking too likely. Thanks all for your help, and I dispell any doubt cast on Memtest86. (no plans to use it though either. ;)

The Maxtor that died was made by IBM. ;) The one I replaced it with just says Maxtor, but looks EXACTLY the same, just newer and bigger. I would like to get one of the new IBM or Quantum drives, but I really don't have a big preference as long as the warranty is good and not much gets reported as bad on the specfic model.