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From: arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Arup Mukherjee)
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Subject: Can anyone help me tame a stubborn hard disk?
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 00:15:15 EDT
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Summary: XT compat refuses to cooperate with hard disk


	My apologies to all people who are reading this message for the second
time; The first post had the wrong distribution, and I need help rather
desperately :



	I recently bought a 20 meg Seagate ST 225 from someone who had been 
using it without any problems in a DEC rainbow. In addition, he included a 
controller that had supposedly been working ok in an XT. Unfortunately, both 
had been unused for a few months when I got them, if it matters. My problem is 
that after the low level format completes with no errors (I tried with 3 
different controllers, just to be sure), fdisk invariably comes up with the 
message "error reading from fixed disk". I have tried all sorts of things like 
new cable. etc, just in case. My questions are essentially :

	[1] Does this sound like a dead hard disk to all the hardware gurus
out there? 

	[2] If the hard disk is actually dead, why does it get through the
low level format without any problems?

	Also....the ibm advanced diagnostics format the disk without any
problem, but the seek test fails with the resulting error 1704 S.

	I would greatly appreciate any help offered. 

					
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					Arup Mukherjee
			          arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu
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