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Helen T. Redlus (hredlus@rahul.net) wrote:
:    Matt is absolutely correct. You should be able to download a file from 
: Conner Peripherals to properly low-level format your drive.
:   Conner's BBS number is:  (408) 456-4415

I checked the Conner BBS and it mentioned that Disk Manager is one way to do 
this.  I happen to have bought DM awhile ago to be able to install my 540 
meg drive.  They also give other instructions, including using the Debug 
command.

I ran DM and did its low level format, and ran all their tests.  The 
drive looked great.  I doublespaced it also.  Everything looked 
*perfect*.  This was last night.  Got up this morning and it booted just 
fine - but a later soft boot failed.  In fact every soft boot fails.  The 
drive seems dead!  More dead than before even.  Occassionally a cold boot 
will revive the drive and it works perfectly.  It seems random.  There 
are no files on the drive.  It is drive D: and the doublespaced new 
drive is F:.

What might cause this random behaviour?  I have reseated the cables, 
checked the CMOS, etc - all to no avail.  I am about to chuck the thing.
At least I know now that DM has other capabilities.  Thanks for helping 
me...

*sigh*


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Kevin J. Sinclair <kjs@rahul.net>