Sanborn, John wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> HD: Western Digital Caviar 21200 / 1281.9MB
> CPU: Compaq DeskPro 2000 5133 / BIOS 05/01/98 latest update
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> John

Hi John and I can feel your pain as I tried
to put a Maxtor 8.4 into a Compaq 4770 and
it would not do anything. I was finally able
to get a WD 6.4GIG to work perfectly though
if that helps.

Michael

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