Date   : Thu, 02 May 1991 11:55:30 GMT
From   : comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!lesley@uunet.uu.net (Lesley Walker)
Subject: Kaypro 10 HD problem

I have a Kaypro 10 which was given to me with the comment "the hard disk seems
to be a bit sick". Well, I couldn't get anything out of the HD at all, and
having obtained the formatting program, I found that I couldn't format it
either. So I concluded that the drive had died altogher.

However, I have obtained a "new" 10MB HD, and it exhibits the same symptoms
when I try to format it. The error messages I get are

       "Fatal error formatting cylinder 0 head 0, press ESC to continue"

followed by

       "Drive rejected, unable to write map on track 0"

Since it does the same thing with both drives, perhaps it isn't the drive 
after all...

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should try next?
(After I check the cables out, that is :-)

The controller is a Western Digital 1002, the original HD is a Seagate ST212,
and the new HD is an NEC D5124 and has been tested in an MS-DOS machine.
The formatting program is the official Kaypro one.

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