Re: Help needed - Vulcan hard drive

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:

>I've replaced my old 40 Meg mechanism (RIP) with a newer Western Digital IDE
>drive (40 Meg also), but the firmware (Vulcan gold) is crashing all over the
>place because there is garbage written in the spot where there should be
>partition information.  I've tried running the part.manager, but it crashes
>right away, so I don't seem to have any way to write valid partition
>information onto the disk.  I'm going to have my roommate zero the disk on
>his Gateway system (and do a media check), but I don't know if that will help
>or not.

>Any suggestions?

Ummm...I don't know if this'll help, but I was having like 10 bad blocks when
I first got my //e Vulcan (now being used on a GS).  I contacted AE (back when
they had REAL technical support) and the guy said to load up the Vulcan software
and type  AE    I can't remember if this was right at the main menu or under
Partitoin Manager - anyway, it allows a low lever type of format that fixed
my HD problem.
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