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From: lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Panasonic vs the hard drive
Message-ID: <111700043@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 89 02:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!lmhg0369    Feb 23 20:38:00 1989


I had a problem with a computer that was given to me.  It's a Panasonic
Business Partner 286 and it had a 40Meg Fujitsu 3.5" hard drive
(M222702).  I tried to get the hard drive set up properly with it,
but I was told that since that type of drive (#heads, #cyls, etc.) wasn't
in the BIOS listing anywhere (AT-compatible), I couldn't use this drive
to its fullest, if at all.  I tried using SpeedStore to format (hi & lo) it
so that I could at least use 33.4Meg of it, but it wouldn't boot and I can't
get FORMAT.COM to format it.  And when I try to copy something to the C: drive,
things get scrambled.

Am I barking up the wrong tree with this drive and computer?  Of course,
this drive type isn't listed in SpeedStore, either.  And I tried to input
this information manually with SpeedStore to no avail.  How aggravating!

I'll take e-mail or posts.  Thanks.

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L. Haskins -- lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu