Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!cpro!asgard From: asgard@cpro.uucp (J.R. Stoner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need info on Quantum hard drive Message-ID: <28@cpro.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 21:34:14 GMT References: <392@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Organization: COG Gateway, Hayward, CA Lines: 20 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