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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive problem...
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Date: 27 Feb 90 16:59:51 GMT
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In article <3654@plains.UUCP> coffman@plains.UUCP (Clark Coffman) writes:
>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.

>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. 

I had a similar problem, (slightly different symptoms,) that was solved by
getting a bigger power supply.  I'd suggest one of the 200W XT P.Ss that
are available for around $40 w/o a U.L. sticker, or about $50 w/ the U.L.
sticker.  I can't provide an algorithm to calculate which P.S. you really
need, but 135-150 watts is just not enough for two drives, floppy, color card,
and any extended/expanded memory you might have.

Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley