Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Jul 29 23:04:00 2003

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, TeoZ wrote:

> The oldest IDE drive I have thats being used at all is a 500mb conner drive,
> and it spins up and works fine on newer hardware. Make sure you using auto
> detect in the bios or try changing the method your machine uses to read the
> drive (LBA, 32 bit access, pio modes etc)

That might be the problem. The drive may have been formatted under
incorrect parameters. If this is the case, can the parameters be
ascertained somehow?

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