Odd jumpers on a XT 2190 drive.

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2/5/22 17:13, Jerry Wright via cctalk wrote:
> I'm going through  a few of my ESDI  and MFM hard drives  and ran across 2 Maxtor  XT 2190 drives with  all of the Drive Id's (1-4) tie together with 1 long 
> jumper and the drives have the write protect jumper is installed.  Not sure what theywould have been used for ??? Both are the same.
> 
> Jerry

Seems to me that this would be a read-only drive accessible on any unit.
 Why?  Maybe holding diagnostic software?

--Chuck