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From: dth@cs.brown.edu (Dzung T. Hoang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: hard drive troubles
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:34:51 GMT
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I have a Miniscribe 3065 40MB disk drive and WD1003-WA2 controller.  The
drive has been working fine since July 1988, until now.  The computer will
not boot from the hard drive and comes up a hard disk failure error.  This
occurred before, but a reseating of the controller card fixed the problem.
But nothing works now.  I ran the DIAG program of the Disk Manager package
to test the drive and controller.  The controller and seek tests pass, but
the random read test fails with a DISK NOT INITIALIZED error.  The diag
program suggests to reseat the controller, if that fails, it says that
either the controller or the disk drive is defective.

How can I tell for sure whether the problem is with the disk drive or with
the controller?  I don't have extra drives or controllers to swap.  Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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dth@cs.brown.edu
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