Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!glenn
From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Gwangwu Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Drive problem
Message-ID: <112@victoria.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 14:32:35 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Bob Izenberg wrote:

*a trial.  Side issue:  a Miniscribe 3053 which works perfectly outside of the
*drive enclosure fails completely, can't even be low-leveled, when put in the
*case and mounted.  One of the folks at the store tells me that some drives
*suffer from the mounting screws that hold them to the drive barn.  He did
*find this with floppy and not fixed drives, more often that not, however.  It
*makes me wonder if this board even passes Class B specs...  The store takes
*a strict Not Purchased Here line, so I'll probably buy a drive from them so
*that they have to make it work.  If theirs fails, they can always blame it
*on my VGA board or mouse... 1/2 a :-)
*Has anyone else had similar problems with extended memory hangs on 286-12
*system boards?  With container-sensitive hard drives?

My 1.44M floppy drive had had a similar problem before yesterday.  It refused
to work when put in a tower case, screwed to the only 3.5" drive bay.  I took
it out, managed to get it to work, and put it back in the 3.5" drive bay.  It
worked, and then it failed when I put the four screws back.  As I couldn't
think of a good reason why this happened (since the screws did not touch
anything on the drive except its chassis), I took the drive out again, got
it to work outside the tower case, and then screwed it back in.  After several
such attempts, it has been working fine so far.  Weird. 


Glenn