On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, TeoZ wrote:
The oldest IDE drive I have thats being used at
all is a 500mb conner drive,
and it spins up and works fine on newer hardware. Make sure you using auto
detect in the bios or try changing the method your machine uses to read the
drive (LBA, 32 bit access, pio modes etc)
That might be the problem. The drive may have been formatted under
incorrect parameters. If this is the case, can the parameters be
ascertained somehow?
I'd try Spinrite on it. I don't recall offhand if it will determine
effective geometry, but it would be the next most likely of any disk
tool I've ever used.
First most likely would be GNU/Linux sfdisk. Read the man page
*carefully* first.
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