Recent content by reodraca

Got a Seagate ST-225. I did all the same steps as with the MiniScribe, and the Seagate started LLF-ing immediately. Unfortunately, the MiniScribe is a dud. Either the disk or the controller is bad. Thanks again for all of your advice!

That leads me to suspect that the data and control cables are working in my system. I'll still get more cables, but I think my priority is to get another drive and controller card to see if intermixing any of them works or doesn't work. Thank you for listing the results of your experiments.

No luck trying different cylinders and heads. Tried a whole range from 1 to 4 and 100 to 615. I might end up getting another drive and data cable and see if I can get that to work. MiniScribe will sadly be put on hold.

Admittedly, the diagnostics that involved reading and writing failed with a Code 20, so while the control cable works, it's the data that's messing up. I did not consider the possibility that one cable could pass while the other failed, although now it seems rather obvious. Perhaps the data...

I checked the cables and they're the correct way. Red stripes on both cables are toward pin 1, and the tab prevents me from incorrectly installing the drive-end of the cables into the drive. That unfortunately leaves either bad cables or a bad drive. I need to get more cables to test those, and...

"Diagnostics" for a seek test. Passed with flying colors. I'll neglect SpeedStor, though, since as you say, the built-in formatter is all I need and if it fails, so would SpeedStor. 615 4 616 128 11 3. I also tried it with 11 5 and 11 7, and without the 2 ending numbers. The first 4 are...

I have a Western Digital WD1002A-WX1 controller with a Super BIOS hooked up to a MiniScribe 3425 in my Compaq Deskpro 8086, and I am unable to get it to work. I don't know if it's the controller, the drive, or my own lack of experience, but no matter how I set the jumpers, I cannot get anything...

I recently came across a beautifully working Vivitron screen, model CPD-15F23. That is, it shows a beautiful picture and some of the adjustment buttons work on the front panel. However, the picture height and width adjustment buttons do not. I can make the picture taller and wider, but not...