On 6/29/2013 11:18 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote:
   More good
news.  List member Jon (not sure of last name) sent me a
 known good ST251 to use on the K10. Installed, it spins up, and
 hdskfmt seems to claim the entire drive is good (which I know it is,
 but I wanted the app to know it as well). 
    Jim, if these are SO rare in USA, I can find and send you some in
 Brazil :o) 
 I can't speak to the rarity of K10s, and I also can't speak to
the
rarity of ST225s.  But, working 225s seem a bit rare, at least unless
you want to spend hundreds of dollars for a couple meg HDD
Still, I think I'm OK here, I just don't know the magic commands to
format the drive and continue on with the process.  I suppose I should
have sent the drive to someone with a working install, so they could
reduce another variable for me (maybe my WD controller card is bad, dunno).
I *probably* should just punt on this machine, but I've gotten it this
far, and I really want to get it going...
Jim
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