I've recently had this problem as well. I did not arrive at a
solution, and instead, suggested that our customer bought another non
Maxtor hard disk. Alas, I can't remember the exact model number, but
it was a new ~500Mb IDE drive. It was to be added as a slave drive
on the primary IDE controller (An Intel Pentium 100 motherboard,
using the PCI IDE controller). The primary drive was an WD AC2540.
> I can run benchmarks under DOS on both drives, and there are no problems
> with accessing both (I have also tried poking around with Norton utils
> just to see if it would lock). No lockups under DOS.
>
Ditto. The BIOS found it properly, and I ran our DOS diagnostics
successfully.
>
> What is going on here?
I've got no idea!! In the past, I seem to remember problems with some
drive hardware. Maybe this Maxtor drive has buggy firmware or
something??
Cheers,
Steve.
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Steven Youngs
N.C. Graphics (Cambridge) Ltd.