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Re: New Seagate 850Mb hard drive locks up - any ideas?

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From: Al Cargill
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <802074131snz@alcarg.demon.co.uk>
           Al@alcarg.demon.co.uk "Al Cargill" writes:

> I have just bought a Seagate Decathalon 850 (ST 5850A) hard drive. I 
> have a mother board with a 1995 Award BIOS and am trying to have the 
> drive as a master to a 340 Seagate. Unfortunately the new drive seems 
> to "lock up". It can stop the boot up process, or I have had it 
> happen while trying to xcopy files over from my old drive or when 
> running a program from Windows when it gets that far. 

Well I seem to have solved the problem (fingers and toes crossed 
having said that). I swapped out my shiny fast VL IO card and put 
in my old ISA one and the drive seems to be working fine, albeit 
slower than it should!!

Al

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