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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: seagate 4051 and 6300
Message-ID: <2851@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 08:54:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2851
Posted: Thu Apr  2 08:54:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 13:35:27 EST
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Has anyone had any experiences using the seagate st4051 with
Western Digital WX1 controller on the AT&T 6300. I am haveng
trouble configuring the drive as a 30mg drive C and 10mg drive
D. I was able to get it going as a 20mg dr C and 20mg dr D, but
now that is no longer working either. Specifically, after a 
low level format I run FDISK. FDISK fixes the partition for me.
Next I do the normal format c:/s. When this is finished, my
machine locks up when I try to boot. Also, running chkdsk c:
immediately after the format c:/s is finished reveals that I
have  X number of lost clusters in X number of chains. The X's
here vary each time I format. Note that chkdsk reports these 
errors on both c and d immediately after the drives have been 
formatted. Occasionally, I get a non-DOS partition on both
drive c and d according to FDISK. When this happens, I have
to go through the whole process again - low level, fdisk and
format. Has anyone ever seen hard disks behave this way?
Also, if the drive has an excessive amount of bad sectors,
what happens? Does DOS give an error? Does it go on like nothing
is wrong? The only thing I can do consistently is the low
level format of the drive - I get no error doing this. I have
tried all this with DOS 2.1 and 3.1 (AT&T), on 6300's with
1.0, 1.1 and 1.21 ROMs installed. Anyone have any ideas? Help
save me from the funny farm.
Wayne Fee, Appalachian State Univ