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From: russell@ALF.UNOMAHA.EDU (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard drive problems!
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Date: 11 Jun 90 23:46:44 GMT
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Hi folks,

    I'm having a problem with a harddrive in my system, and I'd appreciate
any advice you can give me.

    My system is a 20mhz 386 clone.  Until recently, I had two floppies and
a Seagate ST-251 40meg drive mounted in it, with no problems.  Then I
bought a Seagate ST225 20meg drive and added it in, making it drive 0 and
the ST251 drive 1, so that I could use all 40megs as one partition under
dos 3.3.

    Lately, the ST251 has been acting up.  Every once in awhile, it starts
making a small ticking noise, like it's seeking the head on its own.  Then
the computer won't access it.  The light on the drive lights up, but it
just sits there ticking.  Occasionally, it makes a sound like it's seeking
the heads all the way across the disk, then it goes back to working
normally.

    Does anyone know what could be causing this?  First I thought heat,
but then it did it straight from a cold start one morning.  Today I tried
a new data cable, thinking that the connector may be loose.  No good.
I'm getting very frustrated!  :-)

    Thanks profusely in advance for any help you can give me!

--
  Tim Russell      University of Nebraska at Omaha    russell@alf.unomaha.edu 
       "The opera ain't over till the last heterosexual falls asleep!"