aplmak
Experienced Member
Ok.. so I’ve tried and tried on my Xenix box to format this drive with the specs from
Well it doesn’t like to go past 16 sectors I’m pretty sure. The specs say 17. Now if I configure it with specs of let’s say a Micropolis 80MB drive it will work fine! So if I put 1024 cylinders 8 heads 16 sectors… it’s fine, albeit is 80MB. I’m not sure if this machine allows up to 190MB but it does recognize when I install Xenix that it is a 190MB drive.. it’s just it gives all sorts of errors and abandons the install. One of my machines did come with an XT-2190 in it and somehow they got it to configure with that drive info. I’m not sure how they did it. Typically these machines go up to 80MB MFM hard disks.
According to specs Maxtor XT-2190 it’s 1224 cylinders 15 heads and 17 sectors.
Any ideas on what I could try?
Thanks!
Hard Drive: MAXTOR: XT-2190 155MB 5.25"/FH MFM ST506
Manufacturer: MAXTOR model: XT-2190 capacity: 155MB, physical size: 5.25in/FH , interface: MFM ST506 , hard driver specs and jumper settings, layout and features
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Well it doesn’t like to go past 16 sectors I’m pretty sure. The specs say 17. Now if I configure it with specs of let’s say a Micropolis 80MB drive it will work fine! So if I put 1024 cylinders 8 heads 16 sectors… it’s fine, albeit is 80MB. I’m not sure if this machine allows up to 190MB but it does recognize when I install Xenix that it is a 190MB drive.. it’s just it gives all sorts of errors and abandons the install. One of my machines did come with an XT-2190 in it and somehow they got it to configure with that drive info. I’m not sure how they did it. Typically these machines go up to 80MB MFM hard disks.
According to specs Maxtor XT-2190 it’s 1224 cylinders 15 heads and 17 sectors.
Any ideas on what I could try?
Thanks!