11 Feb
1999
11 Feb
'99
2:05 p.m.
I have a couple of old WD hard drives I'm trying to revitalize. They say
they have no partitions, but when I try to lay in a partition, they say
there's no room.
Would a LLF take care of this (vide recent discussion)?
Thanks
manney
11 Feb
11 Feb
6:05 p.m.
PG Manney wrote:
I have a couple of old WD hard drives I'm trying to revitalize. They say
they have no partitions, but when I try to lay in a partition, they say
there's no room.
Would a LLF take care of this (vide recent discussion)?
What model drives? What model controller(s)? "Old" is a flexible
term with computers, and WD has been around through a lot of the
evolution of hard disk technology. Some combos don't work at all,
attaching a WD1003 controller to a Caviar of any size doesn't work,
for example
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.
6:41 p.m.
PG Manney wrote:
I have a couple of old WD hard drives I'm trying to revitalize. They say
they have no partitions, but when I try to lay in a partition, they say
there's no room.
Would a LLF take care of this (vide recent discussion)?
Old could mean a lot of things; are you talking MFM, IDE, or what? In my
experience, the message you are getting indicates some type of problem with
the system tracks. A couple of possibilities include having the wrong
parameters for an IDE drive, and bad tracks on MFM (RLL, ESDI, SCSI) type
drives. As I think about it, I would first check to make sure you have the
proper disk parameters in CMOS for the drive you are using.
9288
days inactive
9288
days old
2 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
gram＠cnct.com -
manney＠hmcltd.net -
marvin＠rain.org