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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes
Message-ID: <1136@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 90 12:43:05 GMT
References: <90160.185842H40@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <90160.185842H40@psuvm.psu.edu> H40@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

! I'm installing a 40 meg Miniscribe (MS845 0) hard drive into an XT
! Turbo, but I keep getting the message "Disk Error" dur ing boot-up. The
! system never even activates the floppy before I get this message. 

  Since this answer might be useful to others, I'll post. When
installing a new controller of a diferent make than the previous, or
diferent format (RLL vs MFM), you will get a "disk error" because the
disk has not been low level formatted. Press F1 when prompted to
continue, and load debug from floppy to run the low level formatter.

  If the system never asks to continue or the message doesn't go away
after LL format, you have some other problem.

  Don't forget to read the section on drive types, WD1006 say set it to
type one.
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