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 "Error reading fixed disk". After this happens I cannot get into
fdisk, 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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