HDD controller failure

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From: John C. Lusth
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:41

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I just got a WD2200 Caviar 213 MB disk drive.  In the CMOS setup, I
set the  Cylinders to 989, Heads to 12 and Sectors/track to 35 as
specified on the data sheet I received with it.  I set WPcom to 0 and
LZone to 989, but I'm just guessing for these values.  Anyway, when
I try to boot up using the floppy, I get 2 beeps and the message

    HDD controller failure
    Press F1 to continue

If I press F1, the floppy goes active and then stops.  A long
time later I finally get the date and time queries and then
the DOS prompt.  If I try to format the drive at that point,
I get an invalid drive specification error.

The controller board is not the problem as I successfully use
it on my other computer.  The drive is not jumpered which is
correct for a single disk drive, so that's not the problem
either. Does anybody have a clue as to what is wrong?  I'm 
having trouble getting through to the technical support people
from whence I bought the drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

john
-- 
John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, USA  jcl@bdrc.bd.com

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