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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!jhgrud!eskimo!fjd
- From: fjd@eskimo.com (Frederick Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Help with Maxtor Hard Drive!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.034147.3445@eskimo.com>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- References: <1992Dec18.185253.8769@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:41:47 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- chan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Vi Chi Chan) writes:
-
- >Hello there,
-
- > Last week I was playing around with my Maxtor 7120A hard
- > drive's jumper setting, trying to add another IDE drive (
- > a Seagate ST-157A ) to my pc. But the pc just crashed all a
- > sudden. When I restored the previous setting, The hard drive
- > setting in the CMOS BIO was gone! I tried to look up some refer
- > ence to get the setting (since I don't have the manual) But I
- > can't get anything for Lzone and WPcom. And worse, The hard
- > drive can't boot!
-
- I think I have the same drive. Is it supposed to be a 130 MB drive? The
- following are the settings for an AMI BIOS:
-
- cyln 936
- heads 16
- wpcomm 0
- lzone 936
- sec 17
-
- This is what the guy at the compter store said the settings were.
-
- Fred
-