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From: rlb@cohesive.UUCP (Bob Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard disk format problem
Keywords: Hard drive problem
Message-ID: <683@cohesive.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 90 21:25:35 GMT
References: <nan.657585768@phobos> <nan.657830963@phobos>
Reply-To: rlb@cohesive.UUCP (Bob Braun)
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Organization: DCA Cohesive Inc., Los Gatos, CA
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The problem is that I can't do a low-level format on my two
Maxtor 4380 hard disks. My system is an Everex 486-25 with
MS-DOS 4.01. The system previously had an Omti 8620
controller, and both disks worked fine. I decided to change
to a better controller and that is where the fun started. I
have had five different ESDI controllers since then and none
of them can recognize the drive. What gives? does the Omti
do something strange to the drive? Omti has been no help
and neither has Maxtor. Please post suggestions as my email
is flaky.