Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!bbn.com!nic!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!TMILLER@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU From: tmiller@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: PRO350 40mb disk Message-ID: <0093D4F7.E4C82900@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 90 00:37:53 GMT Sender: @chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Reply-To: tmiller@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Organization: Brandeis University Lines: 17 Hello, I'm having a problem with installing a ST251-1 (40mb) disk drive on my PRO running POS 3.2 . I wonder if anyone else has ever done this. While it works fine as a second drive if formated from the toolkit if I try and install POS on it it returns a FBI (format/bad block/initialization) error during the install. I theorize that there is an error block which is bad in the boot sector and that the PRO can't re-vector the boot sector but there is a specific error for that condition and further investigation of the error dump status tells me that there was an 'unrecoverable error' rather than a 'bad block in boot sector'. Any ideas? Todd M. Miller Chemistry Dept. Brandeis University tmiller@binah.cc.brandeis.edu tmiller@brandeis.bitnet