An idea:

You can download some diagnostic utilities from www.maxtor.com that way you
can discard bad hardware.

Cesar Mendoza

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>I am currently trying to add a Maxtor 10GB drive to
>my current system..I have a fujitsu 6.4 presently. I have
>set the jumpers on the Maxtor to slave and am running
>it on the same ide cable as the Master(fujitsu)..I have
>formatted the drive(1 10GB partition) and the drive seems
>to not operate properly. Upon booting up..it takes my machine
>upwards of 5mins to boot now( before it was more like 90 secs).
>And I can copy a file to the new drive, but it takes a LONG time
>to do even a small ~50k file. and the file is sometimes not
>accessible...
>
>What I am asking is does anyone have any ideas for these problems?
>
>Thank you
>David Cale

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