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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: URGENT: hardisk problem, not recognized
- Message-ID: <1992Sep09.055929.8958@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Sep08.170121.639@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 05:59:29 GMT
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- linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
-
- >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)
-
- Additional info: drive is IDE
-
- >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
-
- More info: as the above should imply, drive controller combination
- is fine, either as master or slave, my other drive has no such problem
- on the same controller, computer, cable etc.
-
- >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
-
- >--
- >Erik van Linstee | linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | I'll be back ...
-