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From: jwhitson@wpi.wpi.edu (John C Whitson KB2GNC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard Disk Problems II
Keywords: Fixed disk at hardware
Message-ID: <4073@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 89 00:44:57 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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	Help! once again. The following problem:

	12 MHZ IBM AT Compatible, AT-339 motherboard.
	Western Digital WD1002-WA2 disk controller board
	Miniscribe 3425 hard disk (20 Meg, 615 cyl 4 heads)
	Award BIOS 3.01B (80286 support)

	What happens is when it is powered up, the drive spins up,
	and I get ERROR INITIALIZING HARD DISK 0 after about 20 seconds
	of waiting with the select light on. The drive is perfectly fine
	on other machines.

	Two questions: 
		1 -On the drive, what are the meanings of the 8 dip
		switch settings?
		2 - In the CMOS configuation RAM, is the drive type 2 or type
		  6?? Difference is in "compensation" value  (300 vs FFFF)

	Other than that, if anyone knows of an archive of hardware diagnostic
	software, I would really appreciate it if you could tell me where.

Thanks ...


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