Re: Non-System disk or disk error

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From: John Hamilton
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article: <817437599snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>  Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> 
writes:
> 
> In article <807999962wnr@mahame.demon.co.uk>
>            Hammy@mahame.demon.co.uk "John Hamilton" writes:
> 
[snip]
> > I still can't
> > believe that I have 3 disks all having bad 'track zero sector zero', at 
> > the same time.  All the disks check fine with Scandisk, Disk Doctor and 
> > other utilities.  I'm sure the problem is elsewhere.

> I can think off two possibilities.
> 
> - You controller is broken, try another controller.
> 
> - Your DOS installation disks have a boot-sector virus.  Thus every time
>   you try and install DOS, you are passing the virus onto the new disk.
>   Try another set of installation disks.
>     

I have tried 'fresh' DOS disks - same problem.

The EIDE controller/Multi_I/O was cheap (19ukp), so I will try a replacement.

Anyone suggest a reasonable VESA multi-I/O card (16550 serial) ?

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