Maxtor XT-4380E ESDI Hard Drive settings

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Feb 28 23:55:28 1999

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> OK, I'm stumped. I'm finally getting around to adding one of the 380Mb
> ESDI HD's that I got to replace the 150Mb ones I've been using in my
> PDP-11/73. So I check out "The Tech Page" and while they've got the drive,
> they don't give any of the jumper settings. Does anyone happen to have the
> settings for this drive?
>
> Zane
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According to the information that I have, this is common to the whole
XT4nnnE line.
                                                 - don

 
                   4000E ESDI JUMPER DESCRIPTIONS
                   ------------------------------
 
 
 
JUMPER DESCRIPTION
------ -----------
JP1(IN) Used for factory testing
JP6(IN) IN = Motor remote spinup option disabled
              OUT = Motor remote spinup option enabled
DS1-DS7 Drive select (Default= 1)
JP14(OUT) IN= Write protected
JP16-JP29 Programable sector size
JP30(IN) Enables hard sector mode
JP31(OUT) Enables soft sector mode
JP32-35,JP38 Factory settings for head select
JP41 Factory test NOT a user configurable option
JP42(IN) Used for factory testing
JP45 Used for conversion to short INDEX
              1,2= Standard INDEX (70mS), 2,3= Short INDEX (3mS)
 
 
NOTE: JP4, JP5, JP15, JP36, JP37, JP39, JP40, JP41, ARE NOT JUMPERABLE
OPTIONS
THE ONLY CUSTOMER CONFIGURABLE OPTIONS ARE: JP6, JP14, JP16-JP29, JP-30,
JP31,
JP45, AND DS1-DS7 (DRIVE SELECT)

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