HARD DISK
GUYS, explain this:
I put the GRiD's CONNER CP3104 (100MB drive) in K6 Desktop and I could not
get DOS to load onto it. I put it in a 486 machine (IDE not EIDE) and DOS
loaded fine.
I put a 402Mb Conner drive into thr GRiD and forced the geometry
using a setup program and I kept getting a BOOT DISK ERROR. WHY?????
Probably because it was formatted under a different geometry. I would
suggest fdisk'ing the drive (delete and re-create the primary
partition) on whatever computer you want to install it on, then re-format
it under DOS.
Nyet! I downloaded the seagate/conner disk utilities and uesd it to zero
write and verify the disk using the correct geometery. Then I fdisked and
formatted (I did this to both the OEM 100Mb and the replacement 420Mb disc)
and loaded DOS. No dice. I can't figure it out.
The oddities I noticed were:
1) when I loaded DOS onto the 100Mb drive, the
COMMAND.COM and a few other
systems files would give me write errors when they were written to the
disc. All the other files in the DOS directory went on fine. Note: I was
using a K6 with built in IDE controller. Maybe it was the difference
between IDE and EIDE?
2) The 420Mb drive took DOS installs from both the K6 machine (EIDE) and my
486 machine (IDE) but, the GRiD wouldn't boot from it.
I am clueless about this.
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