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- From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
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- Subject: Re: A1200 Harddisk problems
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- In article <1jsdkkINNege@uwm.edu> karl@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (J Karl Meinhardt) writes:
- > I am on my second Maxtor 120Meg disk and am still having difficulity. The
- > disk still doesn't work properly. I am using WB2.1 HD Toolbox to set drive
- > parameters which are read from the drive. I am leaving the parameters at the
- > defaults but, the drive still behaves eratically. The 1200 does not come with
- > software to install the harddisk hence the use of 2.1 HDtools. I am aware
- > of the maxtransfer bug, but changing this value makes no difference.
- > Does anyone have any sugestions?
- >
- > Thanx,
- > Karl
- >
- >
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- Try setting MASK to "0xfffe". That worked on my friends A1200 with a Maxtor
- A2585. He has been using it for over 2 weeks now and has had no problems at all.
- What is you MAXTRANSFER set to? We set his to 0x7fffffff
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