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From: dale@oakhill.UUCP (Dale Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: hard disks on a pc
Message-ID: <1463@buddy.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 18:27:35 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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I just finished reviving an old 20Meg hard card.  I had replaced it with
a 40Meg 1/2 height drive when it went south.  The hard card is a Tandon
TM 362 with a WD 1002A-WX1 controller.  The 40Meg drive is a Miniscribe
3650 with a WD WDXT-GEN controller.  My question is: is there a way I
can run both of these drives on my PC?  I remember some discussion a while
back about changing the interrupt vector on a controller so that 2
controllers can coexist in a PC.  Is there a way I can do this with one
controller?  Any answers or comments will be appreciated.


P.S.  When my hard card quit working it did this: when powering up the PC
it would sound normal for about 2 seconds, then make a click noise and
the motor would slow back down.  I guess the motor that spins the disks
was being overloaded or something and popping a breaker.  What I did to
fix this was leave it on a shelf for a year then try again.  I had to 
cycle the power to the drive many times before it would start.  Does any
one know anything about this problem?  When it went out I sent it back to
Tandon since it was under warrenty (<1 year) but they sent it back saying
they were the EOM (the mail order house I got it from had gone out of
business :-( ).  Again any comments will be appreciated.

Dale Stevens  -  Somewhere on this big net.