8 Jun
1999
8 Jun
'99
6:53 a.m.
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. 
8 Jun
8 Jun
8:44 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
The only other thing I can think of is to make sure they are jumpered
properly. Make sure they are not configured as slaves, or with some
drives as masters either. Find the jumpers on the bottom (they'll either
say Master,Slave,C/D or S,M,C/D) and then check one of the hard drive web
sites (you can find a couple under the Vintage Hardware Resources on the
VCF links page http://www.vintage.org/vcf/vcflinks.htm).
I hope that helps. I can't think of anything else other than some odd
incompatibility between the drives and the controllers on the various
computers.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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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.
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