Re: Wierd Problem with Disk Drive (WDAC31600)

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From: Chris Kennington
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <32b1f082.2336509@news.demon.co.uk>
           mike@philomel.demon.co.uk "Michael Humberston" writes:

" I have a Western Digital Caviar 31600 which has been giving good
" service as the slave drive in the primary IDE channel for over a year
" now.  I have tried to change it to the master drive (with a Quantum
" Fireball TM3200 as slave) and have run into a problem - it starts
" giving write errors on the FAT when accessing files and when an
" attempt is made to format it (at the point Format writes the FAT after
" the percentage complete has reached 100%) and Scandisk complains that
" the second cluster contains bad blocks.  However, there are
" circumstances where the drive works perfectly so the fault does not
" actually seem to be a problem with bad blocks.
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    Is this one of the WD drives in which there are different jumper
 settings for master and for only?
                                            Chris K.
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From: cjk@inf-eden.demon.co.uk (Chris Kennington)
Subject: Re: Wierd Problem with Disk Drive (WDAC31600)
Date: 1996/12/17
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