SCSI HDD not seen unless IDE HDD connected

[Oliver]

@ Moto

There's information on a number of Atlas drives a this Maxtor support page (you probably know they took over Quantum's hard drive division).

I think your drive is covered there, but don't know if their documentation provides the particular data you are after.  Several years ago I had to email Quantum about specs for an ancient 250MB drive, and they sent me documentation which was not provided on their website. Don't know if Maxtor will provide the same level of support though.

Good luck.

P.S. Maybe you can plug the drive into a more modern PC/Mac SCSI controller and get the specs from a drive utility.

[Oliver]

Hi Thomas,

Can you actually use that calculation to determine the number of sectors?

disc capacity is rated as 18,300 x 10^6 Bytes
sector size = 512 Bytes

=> #sectors=18,300x10^6/512 which is not a whole number.  

How do you use this calculation accurately?  Also, is the listed format capacity the available space to store user data, or does it include the space required for the additional information present on the disc?

Cheers

Oli

[Oliver]

motorollin wrote:
@Oliver
Thanks for the link.

My pleasure.

I called them and they directed me to the correct part of the page, so I now have the geometry information.

Cool.  Sounds like they're continuing the good customer service.  Kind of rare these days.

Oli

[Oliver]

@ Thomas:  Thanks for that.  I've not been brave enough to approximate the settings that way before.  Always gone the extra yard to get the manufacturers settings (sometimes worked backwards just to check the calc as well).  I was always curious if I had missed some clue as to how to use the calc.

Oli