On Jan 26, Claude Marinier wrote
> I replaced the Maxtor 71084 A with a LPS420A. The system now finishes the
> BIOS stuff and boots from the install floppy. As a test, I connected the
> Maxtor as the secondary master; the BIOS saw the LPS but got stuck at the
> Maxtor. It appears that the disk drive died between the end of the install
> script and the reboot.
> 

Oh, one thig you can try is to set up the BIOS to not autodetect it
(size and/or PIO modes, CHS/LBA, etc ...). I have one disk which hangs
the machine at this stage ...
Would have it been possible that BIOS settings have been changed ?

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