Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!pacbell!cpro!asgard From: asgard@cpro.uucp (J.R. Stoner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Quantum Q540 Message-ID: <29@cpro.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 19:25:17 GMT References: <392@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Organization: COG Gateway, Hayward, CA Lines: 19 >From article <392@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, by paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi): ; Does anyone know anything about the Quantum Q540 hard drive? Is this a ; standard ST506/412 interface drive? If so, what XT or AT controller ; works best with it? The Quantum Q540 is about as vanilla an MFM ST506 drive as you can get. You must inform your low-level formatter to begin write pre-compensation at cylinder 256. If you do not have one of the very smart diagnostic programs you can specify drive type 7 to setup and get use of 462 cylinders by 8 heads. ; Thanks for the info. You are welcome. -- "To prevent having to tell fools to RTFM don't let on you WTFM in the first place." - J.R. (May the Source be With You) Stoner asgard@cpro.uucp asgard@wotan.uucp asgard@well.uucp ...decwrl!pacbell!cpro!asgard