Seagate says the problem is bios misidentified the drive. It does have
an auto feature but auto lists 3 drive geometries and appartently the one
it chose was from the 3 is wrong. Since it looks like it has to reset up
I guess I will call the shop that built it for me and get them to do it.
Time to backup.
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: Jake McHenry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: How do you change hard drive info
>
> 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
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
> > as the Subject.
> >
> >
>
> Jake McHenry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
> as the Subject.
>
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
