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From: bwilliam%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Bruce R. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Floppy wipes out in Turbo speed?!
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.183342.17123@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 00:33:42 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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My AT-compatable was put together piece-by-piece by the guy I bought it
from.  I got it for a good price but it has this problem--floppies get
scrambled when the machine is in Turbo Speed (8 Mhz)!  This only happens
when writing to the disk and never when in the 6 Mhz mode.

Any experience/guesses???  Anything will be greatly appreciated!

I don't have many papers for the drives but here's what I know:

  Floppy is a Toshiba 6R 020021 (or CR438910 -- it's *covered* with
    numbers! :-) DSDD, 5 1/4 "

  Disk controller: "Data Technology Corp" P/N 10-00283 (drives both
    the floppy and hard disk)

  Hard Disk: Seagate St225 20 Meg

One less disturbing problem... when I use the reset button, before
even turning on the floppy drive light in it's search for the system
files, the hard disk makes a loud noise for a second.

Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions!

-Bruce
----                     "Books are good enough in their own way, but they
Bruce R. Williams         are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."
University of Utah                       -Robert Louis Stevenson
(bwilliam@peruvian.utah.edu)