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Thank you to all the people who responded to my problem with a Seagate
ST277R-1  hard drive.  I did what most people suggested, and it worked
fine. Here is a summary:

1. Throw Ontrack's Disk Manager off the window. It is a worthless
piece of software (I am talking about version 4.0 from 1989).

2. Do a low level format with DEBUG.  Invoke DEBUG with no parameters,
and at the prompt type
-g=C800:5
Then follow the instructions.  You must have at hand the hard disk
specs.

3. Use FDISK to partition the disk and create logical drives (if you
create more than one partition).  Make the first partition the active
partition so the disk will be bootable.

4. Use FORMAT to format each logical drive.

5. Use SYS to install the system files in the first partition.

Even for those hard disks where DM works (I assume there may be some),
the above approach has the advantage of not requiring an additional
device driver, that would occupy precious RAM.

Fernando Guzman