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From: djd@bcsaic.UUCP (dennis j. doherty)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: PC7300 hard disk woes
Message-ID: <483@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 03:51:12 EST
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.483
Posted: Mon Mar 17 03:51:12 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:19:47 EST
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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> The hard disk  (20Meg) on my UNIXPC decided to STOP WORKING.
> It was a sudden thing -- I turned it off for a 3-4 day period and
> when I turned it back on, the harddisk does not respond!
> 
> Perhaps I should have left it on....
> 
> too late now. I have decided to take the hardwae drop-service repair contract
> for ~$500 per annum.
> 
> 
> any reason that people might know why it went bad -- TELL ME - ALSO
> if anyone can suggest a NEW disk with better access time (half/full height)
> please tell me.  -- I am also curious if it would be a problem if the mother-
> board have drive and hard disk -- what would be compatible?
> 

I took the 20 meg miniscrib out of my 7300 and ran the hard disk
cables to a Atasi 50 meg with its own power supply.  The Atasi has 
33 msec access, nice and fast, and quiet.  Oddly enough the 20 meg
miniscrib makes no noise in my desk draw!.


To Gen a new system with the Atasi you just answer "Other" on the format
menu and it will ask you what your drive looks like.  The only hard
part was figuring out the partition's sizes.  You have to use the hard disk
partition utility (diivy(1M)???) on the 20 meg first to know what 
partition 1,2,4 should be, partition 3 is your root file system
(size 3 = total cyl - size(1+2+4)).  It works great
and the speed of the whole machine is sooooo much better!!!

I started looking for a new drive when my 20 Meg decided to stop
working for whole seconds at a time!!!


					Yours in UNIX

					Dennis J. Doherty
					 206-763-5169
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