dko@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (Dan O'Neill) (04/21/86)
[Having never seen the "line eater", I refuse to believ {_{_ &&]
I've been having some trouble with the 22-meg Winchester in my IBM and
was hoping that you good people out there would have some insight into
what could be wrong, how to test it, and possibly how to fix it.
PC configuration:
Power supply: 135w
Fixed Disk controller: Data Terminal Corp. (DTC)
Winchester drive: Mini-Scribe 1/2 height ~1 year old
Installed boards: AST 6-pack, CGA, Maynard floppy controller
The problem: Every couple of months an area of the FAT get trashed.
Usually just one file, but that messes up the entire disk.
Conditions: This happens whenever when I am compiling rather long
programs in C, Pascal or Assembler. There seems to be no
correlation between any of the crashes, other than the
fact that the drive is performing many many seeks. I'm
using Desmet C, CI-86, turbo pascal and MS assembler..
nothing too extraordinary.
I've checked everything I can think of, memory resident programs,
power supply output, flakey software... I really don't know what else
to look at. I've even filled up the disk with directories and files
and ran some search routines and generally gave the disk a serious
workout with no problems.
Could it be the DTC controller? Anyone had any problems with these?
How about Mini-Scribe? I have a friend with the same drive and he has
had no problems. Thanks for all the help.
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