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Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:11:08 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tricky disk

In <20071227170041.ZNYB29909.mta11.adelphia.net@[192.168.1.20]>, on
12/27/07
at 09:00 AM, "Michael Rakijas" said:

Hi,

>So, I have a comparatively recent (not quite new) hard disk that has been
>behaving badly.

Did it ever work correctly?

>No drive letter would appear in the "Drives"
>folder and it would not appear in the "Volume and Installation Manager"
>as an available disk.

What did Dani have to say about it with

copy ibms506$ con

>I took a look at it in DFSee and this is what it displayed:

>" L-Geo Disk 2 Cyl : 512 H: 12 S:32 Bps:512 Size : 0x00030000 =
>96.0 MiB
>DUMMY, disk 2 seems reserved with no media present (USB/PCCARD etc)"

Are you sure this is not one of the phantom USB drives?

This is the normal report for a drive that is known to the system, but
that does not respond to I/O commands.

Steven

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