I need a ST-419 hard drive

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Feb 18 16:05:35 1999

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Joe wrote:

> I tried a ST-251-1 but it wouldn't work. Here's the story:
>
> I picked up a HP 9133XV drive with a bad drive in it. The XV is the one
> that you can partion into 4 so that it looks like 4 HP 9895 floppy drives
> to the system. It's the only hard drive that can be used on the HP 85, 150
> and some of the others. This one has a Seagate ST-419 drive in. I replaced
> it with a Seagate ST-251 that has the same number of heads but more tracks
> and is smaller and faster. The system recognizes if but it won't format it.
> It says that the drives are bad. I'd like to get it running again since the
> XV drives are hard to find.
>
> The 251 does have fewer sectors (17 vs 32). I don't know if that's why
> it failed or not.

HP was fond of formatting hard drives at 256 bytes/sector. That is likely
the case with your ST-419.
                                                 - don
  
> Joe
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 16:05:35 GMT