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- From: lees@cps.msu.edu (John Lees)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: DTC disk controller info needed
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:30:42 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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- I have a venerable Heath/Zenith H-148 to which I am trying to add a
- second hard disk. The first hard disk, which I bought from Heath a few
- years back is a Kyocera KC-20A (20MB) with a DTC-5150 Rev E controller.
- (I'm guessing on the controller. I know it is DTC, and those are the
- numbers on the board.) The controller's jumpers are set in the Seagate
- ST-225 position for both drives. The disk I am trying to add is a Seagate
- ST-251-1 (40MB).
-
- Using "prep/q" from MS-DOS 3.3plus and format from MS-DOS 5.0, I
- have the ST-251-1 working just fine as drive 0 (drive C). The problem
- is that whichever disk is disk 1 (drive D) is not accessible. The D
- disk is accessed during boot, but an attempt to use "dir" or "fdisk"
- results in a seek error. Chkdsk does its thing and reports the correct
- information, but says that all allocation units on the disk are "lost".
- I have not tried running recover, and have no other disk utilities.
-
- I'm not going to expend too much effort getting this other disk to work,
- but it would be nice. Any ideas? I have tried all four possible jumper
- combinations on the controller for the second disk to no avail. I am
- certain that the cabling and termination are correct. Which is confused,
- the controller or the BIOS?
-
- Anyone else out there keeping a 148 alive?
-
- Thanks for any help. Please email and I'll post the solution, if any.
-
- -- John Lees, lees@pixel.cps.msu.edu, lees@msuegr.bitnet, 74106,1324
-