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Name: Calvin Date: February 25, 2001 at 14:03:40 Pacific
Comment:
I got two old hard drives from a college garage sale but all that is on them is Conner & made in Malaysia. They have more numbers.
ACB3Y58 CP30064H GAT03 9230 C006422
They have no CYL, HDS, SECT like hard drives do imprinted on them. How do I find out this information if its not imprinted on the Hard disk? And why would manufacturers of these old drives do this anyway.
Name: Chris Hodapp Date: February 25, 2001 at 14:25:11 Pacific
Reply:
Most BIOSes, even some of the older ones, can autodetect drive parameters for you. Plug one in and give it a try. Otherwise, try searching Conner and some of the numbers on it.
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008 Date: February 25, 2001 at 19:43:49 Pacific
Reply:
My email address is Fred6008@earthlink.net email me if you still have not found the drive parameters. I have a detect utility.
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Response Number 3
Name: browser Date: February 25, 2001 at 20:05:48 Pacific
Summary: Boot with a floppy. Check which drive is C:. It is probably your "slave" drive with no operating system on it. If this is not the case, there is probably some problem with detection in the BIO...
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