Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Moving a hard disk
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 20:32:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.203258.19105@watmath.waterloo.edu>
References: <1991Jan7.212716.16403@wuphys.wustl.edu>
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In article <1991Jan7.212716.16403@wuphys.wustl.edu>
	petcher@wuphys.UUCP (Donald N. Petcher) writes:
 > I just made a move from Florida to the Midwest, USA ...  and my
 > hard disk seems to have arrived in less than satisfactory condition.

I once bought a used hard drive that had to be shipped across the country. 
It too had intermittent problems.  About the same time, a friend
of mine starting having similar problems.  We were both about to send the
things to the factory for repair, when we decided to try looking
at the internal connectors.  After disconnecting the power, I opened
the box I disconnected the various cables, looked at them, scratched
my head, put them back together, "jiggled" them a little bit, and
then closed the box and re-connected the power.

I then re-booted the system and things worked!  Everything has worked
fine on both drives since.  We both feel very lucky.

I can't say that I recommend that you do what I did, but if you feel
like trying, you might have the same luck I did, and save your self
the bother of calling in a technician.