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I'm trying to connect a new but used hard drive (a 42 meg Seagate STS-251)
with my other hard drive (another STS-251) in my 286 clone.  I have
an MFM controller card.  The boot drive is the last drive in the daisy
chain.  The cable has a twist in it just prior to that last connector.
The terminator resistor is in place on the boot drive.

The boot drive is formatted into a 32 meg and an 8 meg drive using
Seagate's Disk Manager.

After setting things up in the manner described above, I was able to
access all the drives.  Drive D (the 8 meg partition on my old drive)
was moved to drive E by the computer.  The new hard drive became Drive D.

The problem I had at this point was the drive light staying on one or the
other hard drives, whether I was accessing it or not.

Wanting to wipe the new hard drive free of its data, I used
Disk Manager to low level format the drive.  Now for my second problem.
Upon attempting a reboot, the computer would not boot until I went 
into set-up and told it I did not have the second drive.

Anyone got any idea what's going on?  It appears that the cables are 
hooked up correctly else I wouldn't have had access to the drives 
initially.  It seems to me that Disk Manager has changed something.  
I'd reformat the drive from DOS but everytime I tell set-up I have the 
second drive, the computer won't boot.

At the same time, something appears to be askew in the hardware else 
the drive lights would not have stayed on when they weren't supposed 
to. 

Open for suggestions.  And thanks in advance.

Kinney Baughman
baughmankr@conrad.appstate.edu