Also, along these lines, check and make sure that ALL parameters are correct
according to the specs on the drive.  I have had the exact same problem when
the Compaq BIOS was short a couple of cylinders with auto detection.  In
some cases it also causes weird problems when formatting the drive.  Hope
this helps.

Kyle

From: "John Morgan" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 1790 - Disk 0 error


> I have had problems with large drives being recognized in older Compaqs.
Make
> sure you are using the latest system flash rom.  Compaq tends to fix it in
later
> roms.  If not, go into setup and manually configure the drive settings.
If the
> drive is listed as having over 15 heads I've had luck reconfiguring it to
15
> heads and more cylinders.  The drive translates anyway.
>
> J & M Home Computer Services wrote:
>
> >
> > My hard drive packed it in last week so I replaced it with an 8 gig hard
> > drive.
>

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