CompuServe Thread

Maxtor harddrive

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#77597From: Don SakersNov 14, 1992 8:44 AM
I just got a new hard drive that I'm trying to mount on my Amiga 2000, 1.2 dos, IVS Trumpcard. The physical installation has gone fine, but I think I have wrong values in my mountlist because I'm getting weird results. Does anyone know the cylinders, heads, tracks and all that fun stuff for a Maxtor 7213SR drive? Thanks.
#78062From: David Schmitt [Baler]Nov 17, 1992 2:20 PM
The drive installation program (like HDToolbox) should be able to read that info off the drive. If it can't it will complain. I had a Maxtor 7080SR at one time, and it never worked properly on my machine. It always had read/write and checksum errors. I believe that the problem is that the Maxtor drive returns a whole bunch of SCSI information that the current SCSI device drivers don't know how to handle. That same drive has been running fine on a 386 clone for over a year now.