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From: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hard drive powerup problems
Message-ID: <1142@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 02:59:23 GMT
References: <839@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo Hacker" Neugroschl)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <839@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>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.

My parents have a similar problem on an generic XT clone at home (we are
talking truly generic... no nameplates anywhere, the only BIOS signature
I can find is "DNA" -- appropriate for a clone, no?).  On a cold boot,
and ONLY on a cold boot, the system powers up, does the meory test,
whirrs for a while, and either hangs, or returns a 1701 (HD) error.
A CTRL-ALT-DEL or hitting the big red switch solves the problem, and
then it is fine for the rest of the session.  Any ideas what this is?

I know that 1701 is a HD error, but what exactly does it signify? 
Incidentally, my parents have the (I think good) habit of parking the
disk before powering down.

Thanks in advance...



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