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From: wargopl@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.165306.15811@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 90 16:53:06 GMT
References: <90160.185842H40@psuvm.psu.edu>
Sender: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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From article <90160.185842H40@psuvm.psu.edu>, by H40@psuvm.psu.edu:
> Can someone out there give me a hand? 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 messa
> ge. I've checked the cables and am now playing around with jumpers (on a Wester
> n Digital RLL controler). Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for
>  any desperately needed help.

Did you try a low-level format?  use debug to go to C800 (g:C800)


Pete

p.s. fix your line length, I got funny wrap on my term.

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