I'm tinkering with some old systems and trying to remember how all of this worked back in the 90s. The deal is, I've got a 386 machine with an earlier bios/cmos than I'm used to, and from what I can tell, later versions of motherboards automatically sensed hard drive settings, but if you've got one like I do, you've got to enter your hard drive settings manually in cmos. Right?
So I start looking around for settings for this hard drive but I'm finding conflicting information about the exact model. On the drive itself it says Quantum ProDrive LPS, and on the side it says 84AT, 980-80-9105. I'm not finding much about an '84AT' drive anywhere except this one post from 1997: http://www.verycomputer.com/7_ceac0a96723db2fc_1.htm
I put the drive into a newer PC and this is the info it gave me:
Capacity: 81.28mb
Model: LP85A 980809105
Revision 2.3
I almost want to say that where it says '84AT' on the drive itself is a typo because I'm seeing information about an 80 and an 85 drive online, but nothing about an 84. Here are two links of interest:
^^^ nothing about an 84 drive. And to further complicate things, my drive says "ProDrive LPS" on the top of it, and the links above have a ProDrive 85 page, but not a ProDrive -LPS- 85, nor an LPS 85 (or any 84 for that matter).
The note on the very bottom of page 1 of the pdf also says that if you have a drive that doesn't match the exact settings specs posted within it to use user-definable settings, so that may be hinting that there are drives out there with slightly different specs.
Anyway, this whole thing is confusing. Maybe I need to get a newer system that will auto-sense the settings so I can see what they are (if they can even do that?). I've got a lot of reading to do, I don't remember any of this crap
So I start looking around for settings for this hard drive but I'm finding conflicting information about the exact model. On the drive itself it says Quantum ProDrive LPS, and on the side it says 84AT, 980-80-9105. I'm not finding much about an '84AT' drive anywhere except this one post from 1997: http://www.verycomputer.com/7_ceac0a96723db2fc_1.htm
I put the drive into a newer PC and this is the info it gave me:
Capacity: 81.28mb
Model: LP85A 980809105
Revision 2.3
I almost want to say that where it says '84AT' on the drive itself is a typo because I'm seeing information about an 80 and an 85 drive online, but nothing about an 84. Here are two links of interest:
^^^ nothing about an 84 drive. And to further complicate things, my drive says "ProDrive LPS" on the top of it, and the links above have a ProDrive 85 page, but not a ProDrive -LPS- 85, nor an LPS 85 (or any 84 for that matter).
The note on the very bottom of page 1 of the pdf also says that if you have a drive that doesn't match the exact settings specs posted within it to use user-definable settings, so that may be hinting that there are drives out there with slightly different specs.
Anyway, this whole thing is confusing. Maybe I need to get a newer system that will auto-sense the settings so I can see what they are (if they can even do that?). I've got a lot of reading to do, I don't remember any of this crap
