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From: ardai@bass.bu.edu (Michael Ardai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Coherent doesn't like Maxtor 3280s
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Date: 13 Mar 91 02:08:19 GMT
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Aparantly, Coherent has a problem with Maxtor 3280 (220 Meg) drives.
Right before partitioning, I get the following error:

/etc/fdisk: cannot get "/tmp/dev/sd0x" drive characteristics
/etc/build: command "/etc/fdisk -cb /conf/mboot /tmp/dev/sd0x" failed

It seems that Coherent is unable to get the drive parameter info, and 
thus can't use that drive.  MWC has no idea what is causing this.
According to them, there is no problem with the more reasonable Maxtors
such as the 4380 or the 3 inchers.  My 100 Meg Quantum works fine, so it
isn't the controller.
/mike
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