NeXT
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I have done the same thing before as well. It left the same nice crispy pin hole too. I noticed the problem pretty quickly so my board survived with only a dead CPU.
Yes, these are what I have available for sale.Is that an offer?
Yes, these are what I have available for sale.
It's Stone's way of letting you know that you've options other than eBay, and probably cheaper than eBay, and already tested/working. PM him if you need any of what he's listed.Is that an offer?
It's Stone's way of letting you know that you've options other than eBay, and probably cheaper than eBay, and already tested/working. PM him if you need any of what he's listed.
So in the odd case that the ide auto detection works correctly, it sets precomp to like 65155 or something like that. Both drives I've tried ended up having bad sectors or "missing sectors" making some directories unreadable, and these drives were fine on all my pentiums. Could this multi IO/fdd/hdd controller card be going bad?
Western Digital Caviar 21200 1.2gb: 1484 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 spt (sectors?)
Maxtor model 91531U3 ~2gb: 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors.
Easy, Chuck... If you have a DOS/FAT16 partitioned disk.Sometimes it helps to step back a moment and think. How is it that the Maxtor drive can have the same number of sectors per track and heads and less than twice the capacity of the WD can have over 10 times as many cylinders? :huh:
Yes, it is partitioned. If it weren't partitioned you couldn't use it.
FWIW, what you have is not a controller card -- it's an IDE interface card. The controller is on the drive's logic board.
You need to FDISK it with a FAT32 FDISK. All you need is a system startup disk from a FAT32 OS.hmm, maybe I should format it in FAT32 and put it in my windows 98 machine that seems like a good idea...