Does your bios have the "auto" feature? If it does, use that, the bios
automatically finds the harddrive, if not, you have to manually set it.
I'm not sure why seagate would tell you the wrong info, unless your drive
is starting to go bad, or you told them the wrong serial number.
jake
On Thu, 4 May 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
> .Hi all
> I sent Seagate the info from hdpram when asking about diagnotics.
> Here is what seagate suggested for my hard drive problems
> > With the information that you have included it looks like your BIOS is not
> > seeing the drive correctly. You should be able to correct this by doing a
> > user define on the drive. By setting the cylinders to 833, heads to 240
> > and sectors to 63 the drive geometry would be correct.
> >
> > I understand that they are looking into including some type of testing
> for
> > Linux in the near future.
> >
> > Rick B.
> > Seagate Technical Support
> When I tried resetting bios info to choice 3 which was cylinders 833, heads
> 240, and sectors 63 Then the computer will not even make it to lilo to boot.
> I changed it
> back to 784 heads, 255 cylinders , and 63 sectors now my computer makes it
> through the hardware checks and boots. If I fix this in bios how do I make
> my computer work? Should I be fixing this somewhere else?
> Thanks All
> Linda
>
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>
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