Maxtor 160 GB slave hard drive problems

[Mike Thompson]

I am having the same problem with maxtor 6Y160PO code 28
every time i boot up.
I called maxtor they said it was a windows problem. If
you ever find a fix please email me.
thank you
Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently purchased a maxtor PY160P0 hard drive for use
>as a slave in my windows XP system with a western
digital
>80 GB hard dirve as the master dirve. The intstallation
>went well with the Maxblast 3 software with the maxtor
>drive attacehd to the supplied promise controller card
>but in the final stages of the installation the system
>reported that an error occured during the installation
>and the device is not installed. In the devise manager,
>the maxtor drive has a yellow exlamation mark on it with
>an error code 28. I can use the drive with no problem
>but it is operating in DOS compatibility mode. I have
>tried every possible jumper modification for both drives
>and have attached the maxtor to the slave postion of the
>main controler but this does not help. I have
>intiallized and partitioned the drive with windows but
>this does not help.
>
>Does anyone know why this drive is in DOS compatibility
>mode and how to solve the problem?
>
>Thaks.
>
>Ralph
>.
>

[Peter Hutchison]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:26:53 -0700, "Mike Thompson"
> wrote:

>I am having the same problem with maxtor 6Y160PO code 28
>every time i boot up.
>I called maxtor they said it was a windows problem. If
>you ever find a fix please email me.
>thank you
>Mike
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I recently purchased a maxtor PY160P0 hard drive for use
>>as a slave in my windows XP system with a western
>digital
>>80 GB hard dirve as the master dirve. The intstallation
>>went well with the Maxblast 3 software with the maxtor
>>drive attacehd to the supplied promise controller card
>>but in the final stages of the installation the system
>>reported that an error occured during the installation
>>and the device is not installed. In the devise manager,
>>the maxtor drive has a yellow exlamation mark on it with
>>an error code 28. I can use the drive with no problem
>>but it is operating in DOS compatibility mode. I have
>>tried every possible jumper modification for both drives
>>and have attached the maxtor to the slave postion of the
>>main controler but this does not help. I have
>>intiallized and partitioned the drive with windows but
>>this does not help.
>>
>>Does anyone know why this drive is in DOS compatibility
>>mode and how to solve the problem?

You probably need a BIOS Firmware upgrade for your system
to handle such large hard disks.

Peter Hutchison
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