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- From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
- Subject: Re: URGENT: hardisk problem, not recognized
- References: <1992Sep08.170121.639@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.051237.10415@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 05:12:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep08.170121.639@donau.et.tudelft.nl> 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:
- >
- This is an IDE drive...... jc
- >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.
-
-
- I had similar problems!!!
-
- I moved a working drive to my system as a 2nd IDE drive... and couldn't do
- ANYTHING with it.
-
- I had the divide by factor for the BUS in my PC too low. As I have a 33MHz
- machine and all was well at /2 for the bus... I was running all my cards at
- 16.5 Mhz.... No problems until I put in a 2nd hard drive (41 meg salvaged
- Maxtor). Then it refused to work..... (didn't try DOS)
-
- Bringing the BUS speed closer to 8MHz fixed this for me. I now use /3
- for the bus (11MHz?) and all is well. Some stuff slowed down a bit....
- but at least the system is working!!!!
-
- jc
-