> > Miniscribe Corp 8051a, 40mb w/ 32kcache CHS=981,5,17
> 
> Is this a SCSI or a non-SCSI drive? You don't specify.

 This is IDE, and extremly out of date. I'd date this drive to summer 1989. I 
doubt that this drive works on modern PCI-based boards and BIOS.
You do not have to Low-Level-Format with debug, if you do, it will destroy
the drive, as these old drives had no security check.

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Markus Illenseer