NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/29559

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From: [e-mail] (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: URGENT: hardisk problem, not recognized
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Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 17:01:21 GMT
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I need a fast reply on this one desperatly!!! Today I went to get
a new harddisk (or rather a new system with one), the harddisk is
some unknown brand known as BT BRAND and is my worst nightmare.
I moved it to my OS/2 system and tried to install it but OS/2 wont
even recognise it. FDisk failes and from the OS/2 prompt I can't even
see it. It has the following characteristics:

777 cylinders
14  heads
36 sectors/track

average seek 12 ms (quite good I though)
track to track seek 3ms (not to good I thought then)
500k/s transfer rate (bloody useless I shout)

I could live with those figures but I would rather like to use it
at all with OS/2. Since it IS recognised by DOS I am rather at a loss
what is wrong here.
Before anyone shoots off, I checked the controller, it is setup fine,
I tried the CMOS settings, fine again, cables ok, in fact everything
is working fine under DOS, but not OS/2!!! Incedently, I am rather
pissed so excuse my loud typing.

If someone knows what to do please let me know immediatly before I
go kill the vendor tomorrow.

Thanks for listening
Erik

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