PRO350 40mb disk

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From: tmiller
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 00:37

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Hello,
   I'm having a problem with installing a ST251-1 (40mb) disk drive on
my PRO running POS 3.2 .  I wonder if anyone else has ever done this.
While it works fine as a second drive if formated from the toolkit if
I try and install POS on it it returns a FBI (format/bad block/initialization)
error during the install.  I theorize that there is an error block which
is bad in the boot sector and that the PRO can't re-vector the boot sector
but there is a specific error for that condition and further investigation
of the error dump status tells me that there was an 'unrecoverable error'
rather than a 'bad block in boot sector'.   
	Any ideas?

                                            Todd M. Miller
                                            Chemistry Dept.
                                            Brandeis University
                                            tmiller@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
                                            tmiller@brandeis.bitnet

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