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From: coffman@plains.UUCP (Clark Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive problem...
Summary: Software Solution
Message-ID: <3654@plains.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 11:42:49 GMT
References: <1704@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: coffman@plains.UUCP (Clark Coffman)
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <1704@lakesys.lakesys.com> tim@lakesys.lakesys.com (Timothy Winslow) writes:
[I have a 8Mhz XT Clone, and I have a small hard drive problem.  I have 2
[10M hard drives.  One Seagate, one Cogito.  I have the Seagate as drive C,
[and the Cogito as D.  I have a Western Digital WD1002A-WX1 controller.
[When turning on the computer, the system NEVER recognizes D.  Then I reset
[the system, and it recognizes it, no problem.  I hate this extra step.
[I have the controller manual, and have set it up correctly, I am not
[using anything weird.  I am just having to reboot once, everytime I turn
[on my system.
[
[
[-- 
  I've been watching to see if anyone has had this problem, but so far your're
the first one I've seen with the same problem. I've got two 20 meg drives
and occassionally the second one doen't come up, I've switched the drives
around but no go. 
  However, I have written a program that checks the second
drive at boot and tries to read a file, if it can't then it reboots the
my machine so I don't have to. If you don't find the hardware solution
let me know and if you want I'll send the program.
  I've dealt with drive and card manufacturers before and it really doesn't
seem worth while for a problem like this, even if they could help, which I
doubt. Good Luck.

 Hey, who else would you expect to be responsible for what I say?  
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 Clark W. Coffman                        coffman@sparky.UUCP
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