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From: noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: More Hard Card Problems...
Message-ID: <308@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 89 02:21:36 GMT
References: <602@ultb.UUCP>
Reply-To: noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More)
Organization: uBBS-NH  (New England Unix Archive)  - Nashua, NH
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In article <602@ultb.UUCP> mwh5795@ultb.UUCP (M.W. Houwers (713ICS)) writes:
>Well, I'm back.   If anyone remembers, I had the problem with the 20 Meg
>Tandy hard card a while back.  I went to the area Radio Shack, and they sent
>the drive out to be fixed.  When it came back, they said that they fixed
>a bad connection on the controller.  As before, everything went well for a 
>week, then it started to give me the infamous "1701" or controller error.
>(For those who don't remember, I have a Tandy 1000SX, 2 5-1/4" 360K floppies,
>an internal 1200-baud modem, 640K memory).

Ahh yes!  the infamous "1701" error.  Thats a controller timeout error
message.  Basically it means that the system cannot communicate with the
hard disk controller.

In 99% of the cases that I have experianced it is related to a "crapped"
out controller board.

Since the hard dive is generally ok, tell the Tandy folks to replace the
controller card itself.

Noel

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