Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NERVM.BITNET!$$$I$JV From: $$$I$JV@NERVM.BITNET (William S. Kirchhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Where's the problem? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 89 23:22:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 14:28:38 LCL Now, I have an interesting problem for the net. My Rainbow 100B has picked an interesting habit of not updating the harddisk. First, swap the disks. Worked for awhile, but at the same time the old drive was put into another Rainbow and worked flawlessly. Drive controller? It was used on another Rainbow a few monthes ago and had no problems. Next? Cleaned the power supply out (very carfully), and everything worked fine for a week. The problems back, but if you do a little shaking around the power cord and power supply, the problem goes away. I seem to remember somebody mentioning the chance of a power cord going bad. Is this the external cord, or the internal ribbon? Has anybody else experienced similar problems? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* : William S. Kirchhoff - North East Regional Data Center (904) 392-4601 : : $$$i$jv@nervm.BITNET (CMS) wsk@beach.cis.ufl.EDU (Unix) : : willsk@oak.circa.ufl.EDU (VMS) crostyme@pine.circa.ufl.EDU (VMS) : : $$$i$jv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.EDU (CMS) Disclaimer - : : ..{ihnp4,rutgers}!codas!ufcsv!ufcsg!wsk Digitized Thought : *-------------------------------------------------------------------------*