Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Jul 30 00:10:00 2003

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 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?

   I'd try Spinrite on it. I don't recall offhand if it will determine
effective geometry, but it would be the next most likely of any disk
tool I've ever used.

   First most likely would be GNU/Linux sfdisk. Read the man page
*carefully* first.


        Doc
Received on Wed Jul 30 2003 - 00:10:00 BST