Farber@UDel-Relay (04/27/83)
I have just gotten my IBM Expansion Unit with the 10 meg Seagate disk. Does anyone out there have one? I have had a terrible time getting one going. I need rapid HELP!!!! When I tried to get it up the following interesting problems happened. I did an FDISK then a FORMAT C:/S/V It then said Format Completed and read the units from the floppy and then BANG. Write error on the Hard Disk. I looked and there was COMMAND.COM with 0 length and a CHKDSK showed 5 clusters loose. Life was fun after that. I tried a FORMAT without the /S option, then did a MKDIR junk and got the write error. When I did a DIR junk I saw within junk a directory junk and ondown to China. Very very interesting. The hard disk passed the IBM diagnostics, by the way. Fix: when I got the COMMAND.COM of 0 length I left it there, renamed it dont.delete and went on. Seems to have cured it. HMMM. The current bets are that IBM shipped a bad FDISK in one DOS 2 release OR it runs into problems with large memory systems. Anyway, anyone else see this? Dave