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From: bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: IDE okay???
Message-ID: <6470005@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:40:33 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
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My ST4096 Seagate disk shows bad SYSTEM sectors every time I try using
Spinrite on it.  Even when doing a DOS format it says "disk unusable"
but I'm able to get it to work after dinking around a bit.  Weird thing
is that it works FINE until I TEST IT!!  (maybe I should quit testing it)

To REPLACE the drive....am I safe in buying an IDE drive?  Are they stable
and compatible enough yet?  Which one is best in the 100meg range?



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