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- From: andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: IDE HARD WRITE ERRORS PLEASE HELP ME
- Keywords: IDE ERRORS
- References: <colin.714197827@marsh>
- Message-ID: <9208206970@zone4.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: Zone4
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:17:26 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <colin.714197827@marsh>
- colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
- >wd0: MAXTOR 7040 AT (40MB IDE)
- >wd1: MAXTOR 7040 AT (40MB IDE)
-
- >1) wd1 has three areas that get hard write errors. What do I do?
-
- You're IDE drives are 'pretending' to be a different geometry than
- they really are. You'll have to dig up (ie: call someone who will
- be able to get you the correct information) the native geometry of
- your drives. It is best to also install the drive as a user defined
- type in the CMOS setup (type 47 or 48). My IDE drives worked under
- dos as 5heads 977cyl, they really were 4heads 782cyl.
-
- Can't help with (2), I'm still confused about that. I reserved 5cyl
- just in case - seems like it works.
-
- These should both be FAQ's by now..
- +/+\+/+\+/+chew carefully/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+
- Roo [andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca] m a c h i n e l o v e h a t e f e a r v o i d .
- "dreams are all that separate us from the machines"
-