Maxtor XT2190/WD controller problems.

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <2232 at cybaswan.UUCP> ex1neil at cybaswan.UUCP (Neil Woods) writes:
>I am trying to install UNIX/SysV386 (SCO) on a Maxtor XT2190 h/d drive
>with a Western Digital WD1003V-MM2 controller.

I followup not because the net-at-large cares about the geometry of an
XT2190 - but rather because I think folks should know about a really neat
resource.  Western Digital has a BBS, and maintains upon it a fairly
comprehensive list of disk drives.  Their BBS number is 1-714-756-8176.

For example, the entry under Maxtor says:

  | MAXTOR         408-432-1700
  | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | MODEL   ST-506  MFM      CAP   CYC  H  RWC  WPC ENC  RATE ACCESS  SPT
  | XT-1065          5.25 FH  56   918  7  919  919 M    5    28 MS   17
  | XT-1085          5.25 FH  71  1024  8 1025 1025 M    5    28 MS   17
  | XT-1105          5.25 FH  87   918 11  919  919 M    5    27 MS   17
  | XT-1140          5.25 FH  119  918 15  919  919 M    5    27 MS   17
  | XT-2085          5.25 FH  74  1224  7 1225 1225 M    5    30 MS   17
  | XT-2140          5.25 FH  117 1224 11 1225 1225 M    5    30 MS   17
  | XT-2190          5.25 FH  159 1224 15 1225 1225 M    5    29 MS   17
  |    [ stuff on lotsa other drives deleted ]

BTW, a RWC=CYC+1 or WPC=CYC+1 mean that reduced write current or write
precomp, respectively, are not used.

Voila.  If this doesn't answer your questions - then you've even got
a phone number to call.

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