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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Windows 3.0 on PS/2 Mod 70 crashes.
Message-ID: <1000@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:39:11 GMT
Organization: Athenanet, Inc.,  Springfield, Illinois
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I have now had 2 of our new PS/2 model 70 machines with 60M IDE drives
crash and trash the hard disk.  Both times it happened, Windows 3.0
was running and nothing fancy was going on.  The first one went back
to the dealer since this situation causes the drive to fail the
IBM diagnostics on the set-up disk.  Both times, something in the
Windows directory (or fat) gets trashed so bad that a format can't
recover at least one sector.  The second time, I reformatted and
reloaded (a couple of bad sectors showed up in the format) and it is
running OK but still fails the customer diag. test on the drive.

1) I am beginning to worry that there is a software bug hiding 
   somewhere that will eventually "eat" all my new machines.
   Has anyone else had a similar experience?  

2) Of the 9 new machines, all the IDE drives were perfect when new
   (no bad sectors).  Do these machines use an error correcting 
   controller such that they should never show any physically bad
   sectors?

I visit both groups on a regular basis but if you have any hard
facts to pass along, mail might be better.  If anything sound turns
up, I will post a summary.

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Ken Abrams                     uunet!pallas!kabra437
Illinois Bell                  kabra437@athenanet.com
Springfield                    (voice) 217-753-7965