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- From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
- Subject: Re: Conner 30104 Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.043759.15605@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:37:59 GMT
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- ipe@sara.cc.utu.fi wrote:
- : I have a Conner's hd model 30104 which manual claims to be 120MBytes drive but
- : I am able to make it only to the capacity of 104 MBytes. That is the same as
- : Conner's model 3104. Am I reading this hd's label somehow wrong or what?
- : Isn't my hd really 120 drive but 104 Mb's drive? I am able to make the
- : partitioning following the 30104's values but when I try to format the drive
- : there occurs seek failures. What's wrong?
-
- I also have the same drive. When I first brought it home to install,
- I configured it to 114/117MB as I have the old bios which did not
- support User-Defined Type. Then I did the fdisk and format. But the
- format gives me seek errors and everything. But when I use fdisk and
- partitioned it to 3 drives of about 38Mb each, all were formatted fine
- without any errors. As I did not tried to format it to 120Mb, I can't
- suggest any idea.
-
- As IDE drives have automatic sector translation, you can use any drive
- type as long as the formatted capacity of that type does not exceed the
- rated formatted capacily of the drive.
-
- Hope to hear more about this model.
-
-
- Best regards,
- Steve
-
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