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- From: bellavig@cs.aston.ac.uk (G bellavia,MB304a,5289)
- Subject: Format Problems on Maxtor 712S 3.5 inch disk
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.124938.6825@aston.ac.uk>
- Keywords: Format, Maxtor, suninstall
- Sender: usenet@aston.ac.uk (Usenet administrator)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc4
- Reply-To: bellavig@cs.aston.ac.uk
- Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:49:38 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- We have 16 Maxtor 712S's (130MB 3.5 inch hard disks) that we use for root and swap
- on 16 sparc1's.
-
- Recently we used suninstall to install 4.1.2 on all of them
- as dataless machines BUT on one disk suninstall failed to find the
- disk on its disk form. However probe-scsi finds it AND you can
- format and anaylse the disk to your hearts content. I did 5 purge
- passes and no errors.
-
- Can someone throw any light on the problem. I am having to send it back to
- the supplier but it will cost money.
-
- Gino Bellavia
- Senior Computer Officer
- Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
- Aston University
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-