Seagate ST9550AG, ST9655AG manual

ST9655 Family Installation Guide, Rev. A 15

∙The FDISK program on your DOS utilities diskette may be corrupted. Try running the program from a different diskette.

∙If you are using a version of DOS prior to Version 4.0, make the drive partitions smaller than 32 Mbytes.

∙Try another drive type or translation geometry. Sometimes the host BIOS does not accept a particular translation geometry even though that geometry is listed as an option during system setup.

∙Make sure that the host adapter is not assigned an interrupt that is already in use by another device. Modify the interrupt jumpers if necessary.

During the FDISK program, the error message, “No Fixed Disk Present,” appears.

∙Check all cables.

∙Check the power supply.

∙Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up.

∙Verify the BIOS drive type.

∙Check for I/O address conflicts.

During high-level formatting, the drive keeps finding hard errors and reporting the following message. “Attempting to recover allocation units. . .”

∙This is normal with DOS Version 4.0 or later. The drive will format normally. However, after formatting the drive, you may want to run a third-party surface-scan program to check for bad sectors.

During high-level formatting, the drive does not format to full usable capacity.

∙Verify the BIOS drive type. Your drive’s formatted capacity is limited to the capacity of the BIOS geometry you selected. If your BIOS does not offer a geometry that takes advantage of