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[h="1"] Function Testing [/h]
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[h="3"] Drives and Machines [/h]
This table contains a list of hard drives and how they were tested. Most drives, listed in black here, work perfectly in a variety of machines. Drives that don't perform as expected are listed in other colors. Overall, we think that about 95% of the drives out there work as expected.



ConnerCFA850A813MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
ConnerCFS210A210MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.0Formatted under Ms-Dos 5.00. It's recognized by bios and works, but I was not able to complete the startup sequence due to serious defects on last disk sectors. But I'm sure it's compatible since it's similar to the CP3201G.
ConnerCFS1081A1GBLeading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master Drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, Format, boot, basic use
ConnerCP3006160MBLeading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
ConnerCP3201G210MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 6.22Boots and Works. (dos already pre loaded)
FujitsuMPF3204AT30GBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22IDentification parameter check only
FujitsuM2681TAM270MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.0Formatted under Ms-Dos 5.00. Boots and Works.
IBMDJAA-317001.7GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
IBMDTTA-35168016.8GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
IBMIC35L040AVVA07-040.0GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Maxtor7L250RO250GBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22IDentification parameter check only
MaxtorDiamondMax 9 6Y080L080.0GBPC AT 51701.1.4Master Drive40 pinsnqMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Maxtor90644D36.4GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Maxtor52049H420.0GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Maxtor5T030H330.0GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
QuantumFireball SE4.2GBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
QuantumFireball 640AT640MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.0Ms-Dos 5.00 pre-loaded. Boots and Works.
QuantumFireball LCT 088.4Gb (CHS 16383-16-63)Amstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.0Ms-Dos 5.00 pre-loaded. Boots and Works.
QuantumProDrive ELS 127AT127MBIBM PC 5150, Leading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master Drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22FDISK, format, boot, basic use
QuantumProDrive LPS 52AT52MBIBM PC 5150, Leading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master Drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22FDISK, format, boot, loaded and ran programs fine
SamsungSV0432A4.3 GbAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SamsungSV0644A6.4 GbAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SamsungSV2042H20 GbAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage (8.4G maximum size of course)
SeagateST3250823A250GBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22IDentification parameter check only
SeagateST310014ACE10Gzenith 8088/4861.1.4Master drive40 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SeagateST32122A2012MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SeagateST33232A3227MBPC XT 5160009Master drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SeagateST310212A10.2GBJUKO XT 12MHz011Master Drive80 pinLLEMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SeagateST38410A8.4GAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SeagateST38420A8.6GAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage, but wrongly seen by Bios as 4GB (if automatic mode is selected). The disk is correctly formatted if I manually force the disks parameters (CHS 16383, 16, 63) in the XTIDE Bios.
SeagateST3491A420MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitalCaviar 225002559.8MBPC XT 5160009Master Drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitalWD20020.0GBPC XT 5160009Master Drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitalWD40040.0GBPC XT 5160009Master Drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitialCaviar 2120125MBLeading Edge DC-2011, IBM PC 51501.1.5Master drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitialCaviar 212001222MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitialCaviar 210001033MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
Western DigitalWD80EB7632MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Booted. Already fdisk and formatted elsewhere.
Western Digitial2500JB-00READ250GBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22IDentification parameter check only
Western DigitalCaviar 1210210MBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 6.22Ms-Dos 6.22 pre-loaded. Boots and Works.
QuantumLPS170A170MBIBM PC 5150 (late model)1.1.4Master Drive40 pinJorgPC DOS 3.3, DR DOS 7.03boots and works
SamsungSV1203N120GBIBM PC 5150 (late model)1.1.4Master Drive40 pinJorgPC DOS 3.3, DR DOS 7.03Works, sees 8.4 GB
IBMDMCA-21440 (2.5 inch)1.3GBIBM PC 51501.1.5Master Drive80 wireHolmesMS-DOS 5.0FDISK, FORMAT, boot, and general use
ApacerPhoto Steno Pro II (100x) CF256MBTandy 1000SX011Master Drive80 pinaitotatTandy DOS 3.2Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
ApacerPhoto Steno Pro III (88x) CF512MBTandy 1000SX011Master Drive80 pinaitotatTandy DOS 3.2Only works with 256MB partition (or smaller, likely). Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SandiskSDCFB-32 CF32MBXT clonev1.1.0Master drive40 pinmodem7MS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SandiskSDCFB-128 CF128MBzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SandiskSDCFX-1024 CF1G486011Slave drive40 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22basic usage
SandiskSDCFX-1024 CF1Gzenith 8088/486009Master drive80 pinHargleMS DOS 6.22Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage
SandiskSDSDB-1024 BXP1GBIBM 51551.1.5Master80 pinewigePC DOS 3.3Fdisk, format, boot, gaming
IBMDTLA-30502015.0GBPC XT 5160009Master Drive80 pinMBBrutmanIBM DOS 5IDs to card but can not FDISK or read using DEBUG; Drive is known good
ApacerCF (no speed rating)64MBTandy 1000SX011Master Drive80 pinaitotatTandy DOS 3.2format froze at cylinder 488 and head 2
ToshibaMK6014MAP6007MB486DX-2/PIII-500AnyMaster Drive40/80 pinLutianaMS DOS 6.22Card does not detect the drive correctly. DOS is unable to do anything with it. Drive is known to be good.
Western DigitalCaviar 143004.3GAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 6.22It's not recognized by XT-IDE Bios: it says "not found".
SeagateST31276A1.3GBAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.00Disk can be partitioned and formatted by Ms-Dos 5.00, but it doesn't boot. System locks up at the boot or strange random characters appear.
Maxtor84320D44.3GBIBM PC 5150, Leading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master Drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22FDISK, format seem to work. System freezes at boot attempt or begins boot (showing "Starting MS-DOS"), random characters may appear or screen blanks, system reboots or behaves randomly. Drive not recognized after failed read attempt and warm reboot. Known working drive. Files written with XTIDE can be read on other systems.
Maxtor90432D24.3GBIBM PC 5150, Leading Edge DC-20111.1.5Master Drive40 pinRWIndianaMS DOS 6.22FDISK, format seem to work. System freezes at boot attempt or begins boot (showing "Starting MS-DOS"), random characters may appear or screen blanks, system reboots or behaves randomly. Drive not recognized after failed read attempt and warm reboot. Known working drive. Files written with XTIDE can be read on other systems.
SeagateST2383A 94244-383339.0MBPC XT 5160RC1 Trying RC2Master Drive40 pinK2x4b524[MS DOS 5 and 6.21Ideally Fdisk, format, boot, basic usage, however keeps saying missing command interpreter.
FujitsuMPC3032AT3.2GAmstrad PC 2086, XT 8MHz1.1.4Master Drive40 pinDavideGMS DOS 5.0Always recognized as Slave, even if I set the jumpers to the Master mode. The disk was sold as a 2G drive even though it specs out at 3.2G
Drive MFGDrive ModelCapacityTest MachineXTIDE BIOSMaster/Slave/Cable SelCable TypeTesterOSTests run
[h="3"] Function Testing Notes [/h]
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[h="1"] Performance Testing [/h]
[h="3"] Machines [/h]
This table gives you an idea of what kind of performance to expect from a given machine (or class of machines).

(Note - this is the original data - we need to fix the wiki syntax for it ... - Mike)

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| Test Machine !! OS !! Test program !! Read KB/sec || Write KB/sec || Comments
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| PC XT 5160 || DOS 5 || Iotest || 85KB/sec || 85KB/sec || Measure using a stop watch
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| PC XT 5160 || DOS 5 || SI || PI = 6.2 || PI = 6.2 || Norton Utilities 4.5 Advanced edition, PI: Performance indext in relation to a regular IBM 5160 XT. Using Hargle's BIOS version 0.11.
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| XT clone, CXQ70108D-8 @ 8MHz || IBM DOS 5.02 || CheckIt 3.0 || 176.1 KB/s || n/a || XT build, ST-225 in this machine: 133.4 KB/s
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| XT clone, CXQ70108D-8 @ 8MHz || IBM DOS 5.02 || CheckIt 3.0 || 212.0 KB/s || n/a || XT+ build
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| XT clone, D70108C-8 @ 12MHz || IBM DOS 5.02 || CheckIt 3.0 || 285.6 KB/s || n/a || XT+ build
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[h="3"] Notes [/h]
It is expected that the drives we are using are faster than the target machines. So we don't list every drive tested on every machine - just the different machines.
Iotest - a very simple performance test. Iotest either reads or writes a large file (tmp.bin) and measures the elapsed time. If you do this on a new partition or a freshly defragmented partition it will effectively measure the data transfer performance of the controller and not the head seeking performance of the drive.
[h="1"] Usage Notes [/h]
[h="3"] DOS 5 and 6 Usage Notes [/h]
  • The largest drive size that DOS 5 and 6 can see is 8GB in size. Larger drives can be used but the additional storage will not be visible to DOS 5 or DOS 6.
  • The largest partition that DOS 5 and 6 can create is 2GB in size using FAT16.
  • If you can FDISK and FORMAT a drive but can't boot from it there might be drive overlay software installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR). There is an option on FDISK called /MBR that will write a new, standard MBR. It is non-destructive so you will not lose your drive partitioning. You should be able to boot from the drive after doing this.
 
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