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- Number: A1TH083090U490
- Subject: IDE Drive Problem - Don't Format with COMPSURF
- Date: December 11, 1990
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- PROBLEM: A customer called with a problem installing Advanced 286
- v2.15c. The file server would hang when it got to the file
- DSKSCTS.DAT in NETGEN. He was using a Conner 200MB drive
- which is an IDE drive.
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- SOLUTION: Normally the solution is to run NETGEN, choose the ISADISK
- driver, format and COMPSURF the drive. However, you should
- not low-level format an IDE drive with COMPSURF if it
- doesn't have an Embedded Servo. This particular drive does
- have the Embedded Servo. But there are some IDE drives that
- don't and they should not be formatted with COMPSURF.
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- (X) This information was verified verbally
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