Chuck,
you're quite welcome...and as a side note...just to stir the pot a
little :)
I have a feeling that it's just the newer WD drives that are having this
problem. at least more so then the older ones cause just yesterday at
work I install 8.0 on two WD drives successfully the first time through
without so much as a hiccup. these drives though are vintage 1997
drives. two 2.1GB drives so the hardware specs are likely very different
then the ones being manufactured today.
Or...maybe I just got REAL lucky cause it would NOT install on my much
newer Quantex machine that also has a WD drive in. I've since convinced
my supervisor never to purchase that hardware ever again. In fact he's
so convinced that he's allowing me to swap my machine for the next new
one coming in so it doesn't give me such a fit.
I'm glad everything worked out for you.
Mark
Charles Bennett wrote:
>
> Well I did re-install using a seagate ST32155W and a 2094W controller.
> 8.0 installed without complaint and "just worked"
>
> Hummm. Changing drives sure did change the behavior of the install.
> So to re-cap ;
>
> 1: Mark suggested that using WD was a possible source of trouble.
> 2: Changing to a different drive caused the system to install 8.0
> without trouble.
>
> Conclusion: Mark's right :-) and in the future I'll remember that the
> drive
> I'm using might be a factor when having trouble installing.
>
> I've had drives fail and develop bad sectors etc.. but this has been a
> learning expereince
> for me. Thanks to all who contributed to this thread, perhaps someone
> else out there
> will gain from the discussion.
>
> I won't join in the "which drives best" war (I'm obviously not
> qualified, since I was running WD ;-) )
> but I also won't deny that in my instance changing drives as suggested
> worked.
>
> Thanks Mark.
>
> chuck
>
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