Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:4154 comp.sys.att:8071 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!bpa!manta!cgh!paul From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: WD2010 snafu on PC7300 Keywords: WD2010 unix-pc Message-ID: <996@cgh.UUCP> Date: 19 Nov 89 20:15:42 GMT Reply-To: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) Distribution: na Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Radnor, PA Lines: 36 I spent a good part of this weekend with my 7300 in various pieces as I was installing the P5.1 PAL and mod, and swapping the WD1010 for a WD2010. Using John Milton's detailed instructions (thanks, John!) I managed to get everything done. When I booted the machine, however, the hard disk never came ready. Everything else seemed to work, so I booted the diagnostics disk and ran through the tests. Everything else DID work board revision P6 and all, but all of the HD tests failed. Sigh. So, I tore the whole thing apart and rechecked the wiring... it looked fine. On a hunch, I swapped the WD1010 back in and, 'lo and behold, the machine now worked. Since I had purchased two of the WD2010 chips from Thad's group buy (Thanks Floyd!), I tried the spare chip and got the same dead HD symptoms. So, either I have two bad WD2010 chips, which seems unlikely, or I have a machine which won't work with a WD2010, or I bollixed something up which is only a problem with a WD2010. At this point I am getting way over my head hardware-wise. Does anyone have hard info on machines that won't work with the WD2010, and what might be done to fix them? Or, if it is something I did, does anyone have any ideas? And finally, would anyone volunteer to test the two WD2010 chips to see if they work in another environment? I have gone ahead and installed my Maxtor XT2190 as a XT1140, and I now have 235520 blocks on my root partition, so this is a story with a fairly happy ending. But the XT2190 was $400 more than a XT1140 and it would be nice to be able to get at the space. Thanks for any and all help! -- Paul Homchick :UUCP {rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc. :Internet cgh!paul@manta.pha.pa.us 259 Radnor-Chester Rd, Suite 140 :MCI PHOMCHICK Radnor, PA 19087-5299 :GEnie HOMCHICK