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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Drive problem
Message-ID: <1038@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 03:58:22 GMT
References: <112@victoria.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <112@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Gwangwu Lai) writes:

| 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. 

  This is *usually* because the case is warped slightly and it warps the
drive frame. Sometimes the drive will work if reformatted in the case...

  Some people blame this on a "defective frame" on the hard disk, but
the hard disk was not designed to be a structural member, and I like to
have the case built well enough so it lines up, and sometimes use an
adjusting toll to insure that it does.
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