[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] sector not found errors?

sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) (03/20/91)

After having installed (successfully) another hard drive (a ST251-1 MFM
drive which I've formatted RLL with my ST11 controller -- this is in
addition to my ST238R) I have been getting

Sector not found.
(R)etry, (I)gnore, (F)ailure, (Abort)

errors when I try to read off of either floppy disk drive (A: is a 360k
& B: is a 720k).  These are the only symptoms of a problem.  Any clues?
Other pertinant information:

Floppy Controller:  MCT-MGMIO Multi-IO card
System:             DFI 386sx
Bios:               AMI
(the CMOS does NOT know about the hard disks since I have an 8-bit
controller -- this has not been a problem in the past:  only the ST251-1
is new)

Another tidbit:  in order to get the ST11 to recognize either hard drive
(set up with the 238R as C: and the 251-1 as d:) I removed both jumpers
on the ST11 card.  They'd both been on before.

That's it.  I'm clueless, but I *would* like to use my floppy drives
sometime in the future (and *both* hard disks).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

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Phillip A. McReynolds,                  sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com
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