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Date: | Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:53:34 -0700 |
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Hello,
recently purchased a new system (Progen Polaris 333MHZ w/Maxtor 6.4 hard
drive). I then added a new IBM 8.4 Deskstar and copied everything from the
Maxtor to Deskstar with the Ghost program. I did this with the intention of
making the Deststar the Master and the Maxtor the slave.
The problem I have.....occasionally the system locks up and I must use a
hard reboot to restart.
Scandisk tries to run because of the improper shut-down(this is standard, I
believe) ....BUT...Scandisk states that it is unable to run because it
cannot read the last sector of the Deskstar and that if I continue,
I could do damage to the drive.
When I first installed the Deskstar, I used the stardard jumper
configuration and the default as shipped was "16 heads". Later I noticed
the original Maxtor was "15 heads". Could this be my problem? And if so,
if I simply move the jumper to make it a 15 head drive, will I need to
reformat the drive?
The CMOS correctly identifies the drive with the full capacity and I can see
no other option to set there. I wonder what determines if one should use 15
heads or 16 heads? Is there normally a clue in the CMOS that tells you?
Anyone have a solution, hopefully???
John Farrow
Cloudcroft, New Mexico
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