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From: blee@plains.NoDak.edu (blee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Now its hard drive trouble....
Message-ID: <5760@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 03:35:51 GMT
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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Thanks for the great help/ideas so far!

First thing I did with the 16 (in a 12's box) was to run 1.03.xx Xenix,
it seemed to work ok for a about 5 hours with an occasional hard drive
error.  Then I found fsck in the manual, which I repeated ran (with several
more hd errors) until it locked up and would no longer boot... so much for
1.3. then I installed 3.01.[3 or 5 ?] which worked ok, except ocassional
hd error until again it locked up and would no longer boot.

I kept a list of errors so next time I could map them out of the picture,
but the list got too be about 20 (that I caught) and never seemed to
repeat, so I am hoping it is a simple problem with rf or bad cable,
I might add two things:
   1  I shortened the SCSI cable about 4 inches because it looked damaged
        from poor routing through the case.
   2  The hard drive was shipped several times by "...of corse it's a hard
        drive, it's made of metal"

Any ideas of what is causing this?, yes it is the 15 meg drive, if it
is the drive can I swap in any old drive, is the cable handling 'standard'
SCSI, is the small bord in the drive case a SCSI<>MFM converter?

And lastly, would it be a good Idea to swap all the memory and drive cards
into the 16's chasis?  I believe the CPU/memory cards take up 5 slots
(one card with big chips on and 4 with 4164 chips on; all ribbon'd together)


Thanks again for your help!
Blaine Lee
blee @ plains.nodak.edu