On 02/07/2018 11:36 AM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote: > XT2190s, XT1140s, some of the early ESDI disks... > I have 6 XT2190s at home, and maybe one of the damn things works. > > Does anyone out here know, beyond speculation, what some of the common > failure modes of these drives are? I'm not opposed to open-HDA surgery. > > And I probably won't do anything. > But the question of WHY this line of drives in particular sucks so much has > haunted me for some time...
I've got a Maxtor-branded ESDI drive with a Miniscribe casting. I imagine that this was one of the drives that wasn't a brick in a box. It still works fine, though it is a power hog. --Chuck