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From: nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Now its hard drive trouble....
Summary: Hard Drive Problems
Message-ID: <142@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 05:25:14 GMT
References: <5760@plains.NoDak.edu>
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In article <5760@plains.NoDak.edu>, blee@plains.NoDak.edu (blee) writes:
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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 fought what I thought were hard drive problems on my 6000 when I
first got it. Turned out to be the main supply voltage was low, but it was
one with the internal hard drive controller. Sounds like you have the
external.

     I am guessing that the "SCSI" cable you are referring to is the 50 pin
cable from the host interface card to the "primary" drive (the one with the
controller in it), if so I don't think shortening it would cause problems.
The cables I use are more or less random lenth that I threw together and I
haven't had problems with them.