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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM ([Karl Denninger])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do ST251/ST4096 have auto-parking mechanism?
Message-ID: <[2485.4]karl@ddsw1.comp.ibmpc;1>
Date: 27 Mar 89 05:00:07 GMT
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>Response 2 of 3 (2485) by Addman at cup on Sun 26 Mar 89 14:25
>[Dennis A Lish]
>In addition I bought a 4096 and I'm having problems losing the BPB record. 
>Something is going wrong and I have NO IDEA what it is!  It seemed the 4096
>lost it's high level format yesterday right after I went into Excel using
>Microsofts Smrtdrv disk caching program.

Smartdrv is NOT the problem; we use it here..... extensively.;

If your 4096 was made in the last few weeks of 1988 it has a problem; there 
was a bad batch of them.  Get it replaced, and FAST!

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