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From: CLS@PSUVM.BITNET
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Subject: Hard disk crash!!!
Message-ID: <21192CLS@PSUVM>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 09:33:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: PSUVM.21192CLS
Posted: Wed Sep 30 09:33:33 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 02:33:51 EDT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center 
     Hi Netlanders!, 
     Last night, while my compiler was writing out an .OBJ
Lines:  an .OBJ
Keywords: ile, my hard

disk made a high pitched WHEEE! sound for about 3 seconds.  I did a directory
and it listed the files, but when changed to my root directory and did another
directory, it couldn't find most of the files!
     I re-booted and the system just hung.  When I boot off floppy disk, and
then try and go to the C disk, I either get messages "Invalid drive specificati
on" or "Error reading drive C: abort, retry,ignore".
     I took the top off my machine to see what was happening.  When the
computer starts up, the hard disk comes up to speed and I can hear the head
moving, then it switches over to the floppy disk.  Ok so far.  But after the
computer realizes nothing is in the A drive, and it tries to go back to the
C disk, the computer just hangs.
     This sounds like a hardware problem to me.  Could it be the floppy
controller chip or the interface circuitry, or something else?
     I have a Z-151 computer and my hard disk is a InBoard 21 hard card.
     
     
     Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks.
     
                                              [Tim]