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From: vera@cadence.com (Vera Vallentin-Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9133D hard disk drive failure.
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.015158.16189@cadence.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 01:51:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.161027.4353@odi.com>
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In article <1991Jan8.161027.4353@odi.com> ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
>I have a system from the dawn of time:  the original HP-110 "Nomad" laptop
>computer, an HP-IL to HP-IB converter, and a 9133D 720K floppy/ 14 MB disk.
>This is all circa 1984, and has run flawlessly until now.  The floppy is
>still happy, but the hard disk now returns garbage from reads
>(no errors, just bogus data) and reports "Media Error" when I try to do a
>DOS format on it.
>
>Any clues?  I suspect I may need to do a low-level format on the drive;
>any idea how I go about doing that?


I am having a similar problem and would like some information too: I use the
same model as Ed (above) with an HP150. It had worked great until a year ago
when the floppy unit went out (it "ate" my disks making them unreadable by
the other dual floppy unit). Now, the hard drive does not "get ready" and I
lost access to all my data on it. 

Does anyone know where these units can get repaired? And if so, how much
I need to spend approximately to have it repaired? 

Any pointers or advice is greatly appreciated.
-vera

Vera Vallentin-Price
408-245-0589 (h)
408-944-7605 (w)
vera@cadence.com