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From: shawn@bmcg.UUCP (Shawn Bosley)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro
Subject: Re: Aaargh! Hard Disk Crash (1790-Disk 0 Error)
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 23:03:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 23:03:46 1986
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Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA.
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Keywords: Hard Disk Crash Error Kill IBM Pain Agony
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In article <2051@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> sethf@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Seth Finkelstein) writes:
>Ahhhhhhhhh
>I hate IBM
>
>(This is posted for a friend without news access. Please reply
>directly to me [sethf@eddie.mit.edu, sethf@mit-eddie], as I don't
>ordinarily read this group. If any useful information is received, I
>will summarize to the net.)
>
>We have some IBM AT's. One of the hard disks just crashed with a "1790 -
>Disk 0 Error". We were about to make backups of the last week's work
>when the crash happened: we have lost some important data. Is there any
>way to 1. fix this error without reformatting the disk or 2. recover
>some of the files before reformatting?
>
I know what you mean! I have a first generation AT with a CMI drive and
just in the past week I started getting errors in XENIX. The disk had
completely lost the XENIX OS so I had to reformat the entire disk (losing
all by programs!). I kept things backed up well so I didn't lose that much. Just 
as PC Magazine (April 29, 1986) had said, "if you have a CMI disk, it's not
if your disk will fail, but when." I didn't think much of the hard disk
problems since I had gone so long without any problems. It's been 13 months
now and I started getting system error 1701 when I ran the diagnostics. I never
thought that there were any problems with the hard disk since I had gone a year
without trouble. It took 13 months before PC started having problems with 
theirs. I am thoroughly convinced that my CMI drive will completely fail
within the next few months.

With all that aside, does anyone have good recommendations for a replacement
hard disk (30 or 40 MEG)? I know CORE is good, but what about Seagate? I
know that I can get a good deal on a 40 MEG Seagate drive. I would
appreciate any info on RELIABLE hard disks. I don't think it will be long
before I will be forced into buying a new hard disk.

Thanks,

-- Shawn Bosley