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Seatools problem
Hello,
my quite old seagate drive (ST310210A)is having serious issues. I want to use him in my Oracle testing PC server, so I have downloaded the Seatools software to check what is wrong with him. Because I have no FDD at all, I chose CD-ROM ISO image instead of FDD one. The problem is that a boot using this image is hanging even before starting of Seatools. I've "debugged" starting sequence using good old F8 and I realized that the problem is the very last line in autoexec.bat where is: findrdsk vdisk this command simply hangs forever any time I try to execute him. I have search internet and usenet, but got no reference to this command. In the case of skipping of this statement, the hang occurs after typing of "C:" or "C:\seatools", it looks like created virtual drive is simply unavailable. However, it is probably not a conflict with the problematic Seagate drive, because it is hanging even after this drive was taken off. Can somebody help me? Thank you -- Dusan Bolek |
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"Dusan Bolek" wrote in message oups.com... Hello, my quite old seagate drive (ST310210A)is having serious issues. I want to use him in my Oracle testing PC server, so I have downloaded the Seatools software to check what is wrong with him. Because I have no FDD at all, I chose CD-ROM ISO image instead of FDD one. The problem is that a boot using this image is hanging even before starting of Seatools. I've "debugged" starting sequence using good old F8 and I realized that the problem is the very last line in autoexec.bat where is: findrdsk vdisk this command simply hangs forever any time I try to execute him. I have search internet and usenet, but got no reference to this command. In the case of skipping of this statement, the hang occurs after typing of "C:" or "C:\seatools", it looks like created virtual drive is simply unavailable. However, it is probably not a conflict with the problematic Seagate drive, because it is hanging even after this drive was taken off. Can somebody help me? The Ultimate Boot CD has it already installed, that should boot fine. http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ |
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I could not get it to run at first. It turns out it only works when booting
from the first CD/DVD (as listed in BIOS). "Dusan Bolek" wrote in message oups.com... Hello, my quite old seagate drive (ST310210A)is having serious issues. I want to use him in my Oracle testing PC server, so I have downloaded the Seatools software to check what is wrong with him. Because I have no FDD at all, I chose CD-ROM ISO image instead of FDD one. The problem is that a boot using this image is hanging even before starting of Seatools. I've "debugged" starting sequence using good old F8 and I realized that the problem is the very last line in autoexec.bat where is: |
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Rod Speed wrote:
The Ultimate Boot CD has it already installed, that should boot fine. http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ No, it is useless in my case. It is using the same setup as original Seagate's Seatools so it is also hanging in the exactly same moment. I will try to check this drive in a different PC. -- Dusan Bolek |
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Dusan Bolek wrote in message oups.com... Rod Speed wrote The Ultimate Boot CD has it already installed, that should boot fine. http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ No, it is useless in my case. It is using the same setup as original Seagate's Seatools so it is also hanging in the exactly same moment. There must be something very fundamentally stuffed about that system if it cant boot that CD. I will try to check this drive in a different PC. You should be working out why you cant boot that CD in that PC. Try the knoppix boot CD, see if you can boot that. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html |
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"Dusan Bolek" wrote in message
oups.com... Hello, my quite old seagate drive (ST310210A)is having serious issues. I want to use him in my Oracle testing PC server, so I have downloaded the Seatools software to check what is wrong with him. Because I have no FDD at all, I chose CD-ROM ISO image instead of FDD one. The problem is that a boot using this image is hanging even before starting of Seatools. I've "debugged" starting sequence using good old F8 and I realized that the problem is the very last line in autoexec.bat where is: findrdsk vdisk this command simply hangs forever any time I try to execute him. I have search internet and usenet, but got no reference to this command. In the case of skipping of this statement, the hang occurs after typing of "C:" or "C:\seatools", it looks like created virtual drive is simply unavailable. However, it is probably not a conflict with the problematic Seagate drive, because it is hanging even after this drive was taken off. Can somebody help me? Thank you -- Dusan Bolek I also experienced this problem, it seems that there is something broken in version 3.00.07 of seatools because there is nothing wrong with my setup. I was lucky that I had a backup of the previous version 3.00.06, which is working absolutely fine. If you want me to send it to you send me the address of a server to upload it or your email, its 5+3MB (ISO + Floppy). |
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No, I can boot from CDs with no problem. The problem is only with the
"findrdsk" utility, that is simply not working on my computer. Unfortunately, this program is used by both boot CDs, so I can not use any of them. -- Dusan Bolek |
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