For certain WD drives, Compaq has a firmware patch on their site.  I'm sure that's
one of the ones that apply.  Can't remember the exact site, but I believe it's
under Deskpro 2000 rompaqs and system software.

"Michael D.Sheridan" wrote:

> Sanborn, John wrote:
> >
> > We have some Western Digital hard drives that our Compaq towers report 'bad
> > controller' errors.  I've successfully placed the HDs into generic PCs, so I
> > tend to think that it's the PC that the problem.
> >

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