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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard drive / controller problems
Message-ID: <230@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 88 21:51:30 GMT
References: <222@psuhcx.psu.edu> <16800327@clio>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <16800327@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
|
|I didn't translate all the alphabet soup you listed, but you mentioned
|using a "twisted" 34 pin cable.  That's what IBM supplies for their
|floppy disk drives, but it should not be used with the hard disk.  Use
|a straight cable, and set the disk address select jumper on the
|drive appropriately.
|
|If you didn't find any ROM at c800:0000, then you may have one of the
|very old dump XT controllers.  I don't know what you have to do to
|get that to recognize a second drive.
|

Well, I took the cable apart, removed the twist, set DS2, and bagoomba!
20 megs.  Nobody that I talked to, including Seagate Tech support and all
the computer stores around town, thought anything about the fact that the
cable was twisted.  I know that at least 2 other people are using twisted
cables for their hard drives... maybe it's the old dumb XT controller that
makes it need a straight cable.  Anyway, thanks for suggesting this, it
would have been a long time before I had thought of it.

  Bill
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