The one suggestion I received off-line was to use EZ-Drive software.  I was
wondering if you had tried that yet?  Otherwise we're using the drives in
our new pieces-of-cr... um, ... I mean, low-bid-contractor supplied
computers.  ;-)

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From: Kyle Elmblade [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

Where I work we have over 1000 Compaq DP2000 (Deathpro if you ask me) 166
machines (we call them 166 classics).  Because most of them came with
Bigfoot drives that where notorious for failure, we made the decision to
replace all of them with other drives.  Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum, and IBM

I know that isn't much comfort, but my advice is to sell or trade the drive
for another manufacture type of drive.

>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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