tew2@ra.MsState.Edu (Tom White) (04/12/91)
I'm having trouble installing a second hard drive in my DTK 386 PC.
Equipment:
Adaptec ACB-2372B hard/floppy controller
Seagate ST4144R 122 meg hard drive
Microscience HH-1060 65 meg hard drive
Hard drive cable with "twist" for drive C
Symptoms:
I can set up and run either drive alone as C with no
problems. When I have both drives installed, the Seagate will
cause a "Seek error, sector not found" after a few operations
on the Microscience drive. This error occurs with the Seagate
configured as either drive C or D and is consistently
repeatable. A warm boot or system reset will not clear the
error; the Seagate will remain unusable until I turn the
machine completely off and back on. As long as I do nothing
on the Microscience drive, the Seagate will work properly.
Other:
Both drives were low level formated by the ACB-2372B and have
17 sector translation enabled. The Seagate uses a terminating
resistor pack and the Microscience uses termination switches;
according to each drive's documentation, I'm setting these
correctly when I move the drives between C & D.
I'd appreciate any help in solving this problem. Thanks.
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-- Tom White
tew2@Ra.MsState.Edutew2@ra.MsState.Edu (Tom White) (06/24/91)
I'm having trouble installing a second hard drive in my DTK 386 PC.
Equipment:
Adaptec ACB-2372B hard/floppy controller
Seagate ST4144R 122 meg hard drive
Microscience HH-1060 65 meg hard drive
Hard drive cable with "twist" for drive C
Symptoms:
I can set up and run either drive alone as C with no problems.
When I have both drives installed, any operation on the Seagate will
report "Seek error, sector not found" after a write operation on the
Microscience drive. This error occurs with the Seagate configured as
either drive C or D and is consistently repeatable. A warm boot or
system reset will not clear the error; the Seagate will remain unusable
until I turn the machine completely off and back on. As long as I do
no writes on the Microscience drive, the Seagate will work properly.
Other:
Both drives were low level formated by the ACB-2372B. I've
tried using the drives with and without 17 sector translation
enabled. The Seagate uses a terminating resistor pack and
the Microscience uses termination switches; according to each
drive's documentation, I'm setting these correctly when I
move the drives between C & D.
I'd appreciate any help in solving this problem. Thanks.
--
-- Tom White
tew2@Ra.MsState.Edu