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Re: Incompatibility issues with Seagate hard disks & the TX chipset

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From: Lonnie McClure
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:16:40 -0800 "Gary Robertshaw" <groberts@fix.net>
wrote:

>I have the exact same model (ST-3851A), which was working on another
>computer.  I have 2 TX-chipset boards, and niether of them can format this
>drive.  I assumed it had gone bad.  Maybe I'll try it on a different
>board...

A kludgey solution might be to pick up a cheap ISA IDE card to install
temporarily, soley for the purpose of formatting the drive.

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From: lmcclure1@mindspring.com (Lonnie McClure)
Subject: Re: Incompatibility issues with Seagate hard disks & the TX chipset
Date: 1997/12/09
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