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From: kklw@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Kevin K L WONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: Problems with Miniscribe HD
Message-ID: <2953@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 25 Dec 89 11:38:20 GMT
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
Reply-To: kklw@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Kevin K L WONG)
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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My friend has a Epson PCe. Due to its compact size, the hard disk is
combined with the controller as one unit, ie, the HD is placed vertically.
It is a 30M (936 cyl 17 sec 4 head) Miniscribe HD. Recently, it starts
giving seek errors. When running PC Tools to give the map, it stucks.
When trying to reformat the entire HD, I found that most cylinders can't
be write/read. Does anyone has similar problems with this type of HD
before? It's the first time I've seen such a HD so is it really that
unreliable?

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