Outsoft wrote:
I've find another Miniscribe drive that is EQUAL to the original one that is on the Winny, we can try with this one.
Then hopefully it should just work
Don't understand well what I have to do with this program: it can help me to format the drive or you have to patch and send me a new rom for let the drive be compatibile with the Winny?
Version 2.07 is a LRESPR version which will override ROM copy (which gets copied to ram on initialisation). The idea was to use it to experiment with, in an attempt to get your unknown drive working. The Basic program just let you know what the ISA card/drive identity is set to.
Then you need find out what your drive parameters are sectors/heads/cylinders etc.
The drive parameter table in version 2.07 can then be patched liked this:
Outsoft wrote:
I've find another Miniscribe drive that is EQUAL to the original one that is on the Winny, we can try with this one.
Then hopefully it should just work
Don't understand well what I have to do with this program: it can help me to format the drive or you have to patch and send me a new rom for let the drive be compatibile with the Winny?
Version 2.07 is a LRESPR version which will override ROM copy (which gets copied to ram on initialisation). The idea was to use it to experiment with, in an attempt to get your unknown drive working. The Basic program just let you know what the ISA card/drive identity is set to.
Then you need find out what your drive parameters are sectors/heads/cylinders etc.
The drive parameter table in version 2.07 can then be patched liked this:
Hi all, unfortunately all my tricks to recover the old hd is going bad; I've also replaced the rom with the last version and nothing happens so I suppose that all hd's are fault.
In effect we are speaking about some pieces of hardware of about 30 years old!!
I'm very sorry but I think that we need to find a mfm/rll hdd that is tested to be sure that the miracle hdd system is ok
Reading the message thread again, it looks like the hard drive is not paired with the Hard Drive Interface.
The way to perform this pairing of Hard drive and interface is to install the Hard Drive into a PC with ISA Bus, set the CMOS Hard Drive setting to 0, which is not installed.
Boot the PC into MSDOS and use DEBUG to pair and partition the drive.
See Page 12 of the attached manual for Seagate ST412 Interface Controller-ST11M-ST11R
Then use the QL to format drive.
If you are still having problems, then send to me and when I have time I will do the required work.