170M IDE drive... in another computer

[Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>]

I moved a new Toshiba 540 into my case and offered the IBM 170M drive to 
my brother for his Sanyo 18MB. Like a fool, I agree to install it.

It's not working.

The machine has a config screen, I'm punching in the specs on the top of 
the IBM drive - 989 cyls, 10 heads, 34 sectors. No go. I'm wondering if 
there's some possible difference between the IBM drive and the Connor 
CP-2064 that came out of this Sanyo (which is really a relabeled Toshiba 
laptop, by the way) The connor has 2 jumpers, the IBM has none.

Does anyone have specs for these two drives or any idea why my problem 
might be? I know it's not 100% Pad related, but I know a few people have 
removed smaller drives and may have tried to reuse them. (Besides, I 
think I'm running in the black on this list as far as contributing 
anyways, so I don't feel too bad in asking...)

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