Maxtor LXT-200S

[Dan Razzell]

We are in the process of installing some Maxtor 200MB SCSI disk drives
into Sparcstations.  The drives are shipped without documentation, so
while we wait for the installation manual to arrive, I thought I'd ask if
anyone can readily provide the necessary setup to put these drives into
service. In particular:

1) How is the SCSI address jumpered?
2) I also heard some mention of parity and spinup delay, if anyone can
   suggest appropriate jumper settings.
3) Does anyone have a format.dat entry for this drive that they would like
   to share?

I can confirm at this point that these drives do indeed run very hot.  Not
hot enough to fry eggs, but almost too hot to touch.  Don't know that I
would want to be reincarnated as a Maxtor controller chip.  It might
almost be worth drilling out the ventilation holes under these drives,
just to give the fan a bit of a chance, always bearing in mind that a good
mass of air still needs to flow over the SIMM area.