Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf 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 Lines: 26 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 -- Bitnet: wcf@psuhcx.bitnet Bill Fenner | Internet: wcf@hcx.psu.edu | This space UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf | for rent Fido: Sysop at 263/42 |