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From: unkydave@shumv1.uucp (David Bank)
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Subject: Re: HARDCARD 1701(B) problem
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Date: 22 Oct 89 07:33:43 GMT
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In article <457@ringwood.Morgan.COM> joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) writes:
>I have started seeing this error message on my 40meg
>PLUS HARDCARD:
>  1701(B) Controller Error
>At this point, the harddisk 'light' signal in the top
>right (mimics the LED) is on solid. Alt-Ctrl-DEL doesn't
>help. A power off/on is required.
>
>It tends to happen with the copy command but I have determined
>that the file(s) themselves are quite readable.
>
>Any ideas? 
>
>Thanks,
>joec@morgan.com


     Run, do NOT walk, to your hard drive backup facilities and utilize
them IMMEDIATELY. Do not wait a second. Do it NOW.

     It would appear that the low-level formatting on the drive
is beginning to weaken. 1701 is a general drive failure code and
is BAD NEWS. Reformat that drive after backing it up. Not just
"Format C:" but a low-level format. If you don't know how to do
that, contact the manufacturer.


     People, when you get errors like this on boot-up, particularly
after many weeks/months/years of faithful service, your computer is
trying to tell you something is very wrong. Those built-in
diagnostics are there for a reason: so you find out that you need
to re-format BEFORE you actually need to do it!

Unky Dave
unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu