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A long time ago I helped a co-worker swap out a 540mb hard drive out of a M/75, and I seem to remember experiencing the same problem. If I remember correctly, someone suggested to us to set the jumper on the hard drive to Cable Select not Master or Slave. If the hard drive "auto parks" then the Precomp and LZ settings aren't really required.
Take this advice with a few thousand grains of salt as it was a long time and many many system upgrades ago.
Patrick
At 10:14 PM 10/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I have an old Nec Versa M/75 that used to have a debian install on it. Eventually the hard drive broke and I got a replacement, but I'm having troubl making it work. The laptop asks for Cylinders, Heads, Sectors/Track, Writing Precomp and Landing Zone. IBM's web site only gives the first three. I've tried it with various settings for the last two, but I always get "Hard disk read failure" on post. Does anyone have an experience or suggestions for this that they could share? I'm stuck on it.
>
>-Mark
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Patrick Hustis
TelTrax Corporation
Vice President Information Systems
phustis@teltrax.com
480-481-9292
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A long time ago I helped a co-worker swap out a 540mb hard drive out of a
M/75, and I seem to remember experiencing the same problem. If I
remember correctly, someone suggested to us to set the jumper on the hard
drive to Cable Select not Master or Slave. If the hard drive
"auto parks" then the Precomp and LZ settings aren't really
required.<br>
<br>
Take this advice with a few thousand grains of salt as it was a long time
and many many system upgrades ago.<br>
<br>
Patrick<br>
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At 10:14 PM 10/17/01 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>I have an
old Nec Versa M/75 that used to have a debian install on it. Eventually
the hard drive broke and I got a replacement, but I'm having troubl
making it work. The laptop asks for Cylinders, Heads, Sectors/Track,
Writing Precomp and Landing Zone. IBM's web site only gives the first
three. I've tried it with various settings for the last two, but I always
get "Hard disk read failure" on post. Does anyone have an
experience or suggestions for this that they could share? I'm stuck on
it.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>-Mark</font></blockquote><br>
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<div>Patrick
Hustis
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<div>TelTrax Corporation</div>
<div>Vice President Information Systems</div>
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phustis@teltrax.com</div>
<div>480-481-9292</div>
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