Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 30 00:56:01 2003

The older drives have the settings printed on the top of the drive cyl heads
sectors etc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk


> 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 - 00:56:01 BST