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From: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (dday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Seek errors on ST-225.  HELP!!!!
Message-ID: <1650@bu-tyng.bu.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 88 21:27:37 GMT
Reply-To: draper@bu-tyng.UUCP (dday)
Organization: Boston University, Tyngsboro MA
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	I am having seek problems with a Seagate ST-225 drive using
	a Winchestor WD1002S-WX2 controller card. The machine is a
	Fountain XT clone with the hard drive added after purchase.

	Symptoms: Turn machine on. Sometimes it boots, sometines
	it dosen't. (from the hard drive, always boots from floppy)
	After the machine is booted trying to do just about anything
	that requires a hard drive access causes the drive light to
	turn on, the drive can be heard stepping or "clicking" as it
	tries to read the disk. This continues for about 15 to 20
	seconds. It then prompts you with a seek error message and
	the dos prompt to abort, ignore, fail or retry. Disk accesses
	are successful about 20% of the time.

	I have tried running DOS chkdsk and Norton disk test. Neither
	of them will even run. The machine gets seek errors almost
	immediatly. This machine is approx. 2 years old ... but it has
	MINIMAL run time on it. I don't know if this has anything to do
	with it but the machine hadn't been used in over 2 months when it
	was turned on and displayed the problems right away. It was
	running fine before that.

	Any ideas anybody. Is it the disk or the controller card?
	

	Dave Draper

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