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From: cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: 5.25" high Dens. drive problems
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Date: 5 Oct 90 04:00:43 GMT
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In article <1990Oct4.163903.52@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> alf@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
>a 3.5" high density floppy.  I recently installed a new 5.25" high density.
>The new drive works, but occationally I get "error reading data" errors.  I
>have narrowed the times that I get these error to be only when I have had
>the system up and running for more than 3 or 4 hours.  It seems as if the Drive
>is overheating and giving me these errors, because if I shut down the system,
>and let it cool off for an hour or two it works fine.  For example I was running

Have you tried relocating the drive?  

My True Blue IBM AT 1.2 Meg
drive kept returning massive random errors until I moved it from
*under* the hard drive to *over* the hard drive.

Now the poor drive is burnt out :-((  I installed it in an external
case and put an old unreliable power supply on it.  It burned out
both my Genuine IBM AT drive and my Sony 3.5" 1.44Meg drive.  I
begin replacing IC's for the AT drive this weekend, but I'm givingup
on the 3.5" because of the SMD's that it uses. 
AAAAARRRRRGHH!!!!!

(I'd just thought I'd share my frustrations on the net....)

-- 
Dennis Lou             |
dlou@ucsd.edu          | "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
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