On 1999-03-25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Here's achallenge for this list: i picked up an old
>(20 meg I think) Seagate hard drive at a flea market for $5.
>It is the ST-225. Has a controller card with it.
>Now. What type of computer was this meant to run in?
These were very commonly found in XT's
>All Seagate's web site has told me is that I need the controller
>card, and that it's 20 meg.
Look again, I printed out the ST-225 spec sheet a few monthes ago, I think.
I have 2 of these drives.
>In my old old old, Tandy 1000,
>it looks to be powering up, but the computer doesn't recognize it.
Does Fdisk see it?
>My 486 won't boot with it, and doesn't seem to be able to recognize
>it.
For a 486 you would need all the specs for the drive....so you could put
them into the cmos setup. I think that would work.....I have never tried
putting an MFM drive in a 486.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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