Seagate MARATHON 810 Installation Manual page 17

Marathon 810 Installation Guide, February 1996
At startup, the message "HDD controller failure" appears.
Check jumper settings on all drives.
Check all cards and cables.
During the FDISK program, you get an error message warn-
ing of an attempt to write to track 0 or to the boot sector; the
message may also suggest that a virus is present.
This occurs in systems that have a virus-protection scheme that
does not allow programs to modify the boot sector of the disc.
See your system manual for details. To avoid the problem, run
the system setup program and turn off the virus-protection option.
Then exit system setup and run the FDISK and FORMAT
programs. After all drive partitions are formatted, use the system
setup program to turn virus protection on again.
During the FDISK program, the computer hangs or fails to
create or save the partition record.
Check all cables.
The FDISK program on your DOS utilities diskette may be
corrupted. Try running the program from a different diskette.
Check to see whether you are using a version of MS-DOS
prior to Version 4.0. If so, upgrade to MS-DOS Version 5.0 or
later.
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.
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