I had a similar experience two months ago.
It doesn't matter if the BIOS uses auto detect. For this particular
850Meg drive, I believe you have to get the software off the Seagate
site to 'configure' the drive. At least, this is what I did to get the
drive to work.

G Kaucher wrote:
>
> I removed a working Seagate 850 MB HDD from an old computer and installed
> it in another old computer (1995) that is using and Award Bios. The BIOS
> has an autodetect ability, and gives me three option; "LBA, NORMAL, and
> LARGE" for the "HDD geometry." It doesn't seem to matter which one I
> choose. After choosing the "geometry" I FDISK the HDD, and make a an active
> primary partition. After that, I do a format (format c: /v /s). Regardless
> of what I do, I still can't seem to boot from the HDD. It goes thru the
> memory test, flips to the "next page" and gives me a message "hit CTRL to
> boot from a floppy" for a short time, and then gives me a message "INIT ERR
> Hit "ENTER" to reboot. I tried installing DOS 6.22 to see if that would
> make any differnce, but it didn't. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>
> Gary Kaucher

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