Once upon a midnight dreary, Don Maslin had spoken clearly:
> A few days ago, I undertook to install a Maxtor XT2190 (that had
> previously been used in a PC running DOS) in my VAXStation 2000. I
> brought up T 70 and, to my relief and joy, it scanned the disk and
> declared it an RD54! The relief came since I was not at all sure that
> I could come up with all of the data that T 70 requires when it goes
> into query mode. Is there a program that can extract that data from a
> 'real' RD54?
Not into vaxen (yet) myself, but whilst I was searching the web, I found
this page which seemed like it could be very helpful...
http://www.s3.kth.se/~lha/VAX
And I also found this:
What follows is a list of hard disk data. The columns contain the following
information:
COMPANY maker of the hard disk
NAME name of the model
UNFO unformatted capacity in MByte
FORM formatted capacity in MByte.
Note that this may depend on sector size
STPRTE average step rate or seek time in ms
SZE size (5.25 inch, 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch)
HGT height (FH or HH for 5.25, exact value for other sizes)
INTRFACE interface. MFM and RLL go with a ST506-interface,
SCS2 means SCSI-2
CYLINS number of cylinders (or total number of sectors)
HDS number of data surfaces
PRECMP precompensation
IBMTYP typ for IBM AT and compatibles
PWR typical power consumption
BUFFER buffer size built into the drive in KByte
AP Autopark function (T means Yes, N or F mean Not available)
MADEUNTL year this drive was last manufactured
Maxtor,XT2190,0,155,28,5.25,FH,,0,0,,0,0,,,,
Which I found here:
http://www.spock.mem.net/computer/text/harddisk.txt
And there's also this one for lotsa drive specs:
http://www.alaska.net/~zumwalt/Drive_Ide/Hdd_specs.txt
I hope this helps you!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 17:07:42 BST