Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Jul 30 05:32:01 2003

Tothwolf wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, TeoZ wrote:
>>
>>The older drives have the settings printed on the top of the drive cyl
>>heads sectors etc
>
>
> True, and sometimes whats printed on the drive does not match what the
> drive reports to the BIOS. Of course, sometimes people would use settings
> from a book of hard drive settings, especially when the drive was already
> installed. The settings printed in such a book don't always match whats
> printed on the drive or what the drive reports to the BIOS.

   Not only that, but Quantum was the worst about mislabelling drives.
I've seen several sub-1GB Quantum IDE drives with SCSI jumper settings
on the label, or vice versa, and many with the wrong size and geometry.


        Doc
Received on Wed Jul 30 2003 - 05:32:01 BST