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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk unit 0 failure
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.141342.5538@mccc.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 90 14:13:42 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.162754.462@mccc.uucp> <4396@bwdls58.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <4396@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
=In article <1990Sep17.162754.462@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>I just (physically) replaced a 72MB Micropolis with a 190MB Maxtor
=>XT-2190 HD, same cables, same everything.
=>	"Hard disk unit 0 failure"
=
=Err umm.. perhaps the obvious solution.. hit F1 (or whatever) to continue,
=boot DOS from a diskette, and then run a low level format on the drive..

Well, that COULD have been the problem, but it turned out to be wrong
drive select jumpers!  ;-)

Moral:  There are many things that can cause failure.  The one that
happened to you is *not* the only one, no matter how comforting that
seems to be!  :-)

Pete
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