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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: hard drive powerup problems
Message-ID: <839@spdcc.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 88 16:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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I've got a Priam 60mb disk which is behaving a little strangely these days
upon power-up.  Ordinarily, several seconds after turning the power on,
I hear a characteristic "boing" which I assume is the heads retracting,
the BIOS self-test succeeds, and my system boots.  These days, it may take
several power cycle attempts for this to happen; more often, I don't hear
anything, the BIOS reports a disk failure, and I fall into cassette BASIC
(this on a 386 souped-up AT!)

Anyone have any idea what's going on?  I'm getting wary of having to shut my
machine down for board swaps/upgrades...
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer