Correction.


> Brand new Deskstar 22GXP 13.5 gig. Installed drive as master on Promise
> Ultra 66 controller, fdisk drive, yes to large disk support, primary
> partition C 10895, extended with the rest of the space, first logical D
> 1024, second logical E with the rest of the space, reboot. The MBs
> numbers may not be right but you get the idea.
>
> At the A prompt enter C it comes up, enter D it comes up, enter E and I
> get "invalid drive specification". After this happens I cannot get into
> fdisk, I get "error reading fixed disk", I have to run a debug script to
> blow the partition table away.
>
> Win98 is the boot disk, FAT32 is the setup. I get this whether the drive
> is on the Promise controller, or on the mobos controller. The board is a
> BX6 rev. 2, not overclocked while setting up. I have tried this on
> another BX6 and another Promise controller with the same results.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> This same thing happened a few weeks ago with a Seagate Barracuda 20 gig
> drive and I returned it thinking it was bad. Now it's happening again so
> I'm thinking it may be something else. What are the chances of getting
> two bad drives from different manufacturers?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jose
>
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