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seagate st31270A

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From: Mike Cattell
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 00:00
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I have just aquired one of these drives and have been trying in vain to
install it as a slave to my maxtor 850mb drive.

The problem is that I can get the drive recognised by my amibios but
when I come to run fdisk it just hangs on the screen for creating Primary
/ extended partion.

The drive makes a terrible noise, the green light on the drive is on all the
time as is my drive light from my hard disk.

I'm running a home built P75, intel triton motherboard, windows 95.

Ive tried in a dos window, booting to safe mode command line and
booting and using an old 6.22 fdisk programme.

The disk was bought cheap (SUCKER :-(  ) and ive probably got no
come back with the vendor. It was as far as I can tell brand new and in
its original packaging with the jumpers in their parked position.

Any help gratefuly received.
 
Mike Cattell, Christleton, Cheshire, U.K.
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From: Mike Cattell <mike@mikecat.demon.co.uk>
Subject: seagate st31270A
Date: 1996/04/14
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