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From: steven@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Steven E. Harari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: I *really* need help w. ST238 (formatting)
Keywords: HD, ST238
Message-ID: <1353@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 22:30:36 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Steven E. Harari)
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Hi.

	Hopefully, somebody can help me with this.

	I have a Seagate ST238 w/ an RLL controller on 2 different machines.
(That's 2 different drives on two different machines) One is a plain vanilla
IBM PC, the other is Leading Edge Model D.

Problems:    

			(Leading Edge)

	After low-level formatting and running of fdisk (under Dos 3.3) I 
format c:/s.  I've noticed that chkdsk does not detect any unusable sectors.
The drive works fine for a while (a few hours - a few days) and then I get
problems reading the drive...  Eventually the machine won't boot (I get the
error of "missng command.com", or come such animal)  Sometimes, if I let the
machine sit a while, the drive works fine, only to crash again a little while
later.  The drive is about a year old.

			(IBM PC)

	The problem is similar to that of the LE - D.  I have a brand new drive
in an old PC....  Like the Model D, chkdsk finds no bad sectors. (DOS 3.3)

What the hell is going on, and how can I solve it?
Please e-mail me the response, and I will post summary.


Thanx in advance,

steven@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu