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From: crimmins@csli.Stanford.EDU (Mark Crimmins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Unix PC and WD2010B
Keywords: WD23[D010B, UnixPC
Message-ID: <14873@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Aug 90 15:23:29 GMT
References: <1476@madnix.UUCP>
Sender: crimmins@csli.Stanford.EDU (Mark Crimmins)
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In <1476@madnix.UUCP> dougm@madnix.UUCP (Doug McIntyre) writes:

>I'm having problems with a Minniscribe 3085 I installed,
>(and started all the talk on the WD2010 on).. I'm getting weird errors
>all over the place. Whenever the drive hits these regions, I get a
>re-callibration, and the process being killed that tried to read this
>region in the first place..

>Its not like a head crash, because I've been running for two weeks without
>an error now.. But whenever I put something big on the drive, (ie. unpacking
>a GNU piece of software or so), it will run into an error..

>Some of the cylinders that have had trouble are:  (all on head 0)
>346,30,9,35,34,25,50,467,247,33,132

Sounds a lot like the problem many of us had, that is cured, believe it
or not, by cleaning the 20-pin (or so) molex ribbon connector on the
power supply board.  Clean it well.  When the pins are dirty, the p.s.
has to work to hard, and voltage everwhere (including the h.d.) is
affected.

Mark
crimmins@csli.stanford.edu