partha@gitpyr.UUCP (Partha Dasgupta) (03/04/85)
Occasionally (getting very frequent recently) when I power up my XT, it
comes up with the ROM Basic! If I boot DOS from a diskette in drive A, I
get DOS, but I cannot access or change to drive C: (hard disk). It says
"Incorrect drive specification"
The only way to get it to work properly is to run the diagnostics. After
it passes diagnostics, I can boot from hard disk (the diagnostics jiggle the
hard disk quite a bit).
I have tried *all* that I can think of (even reformatted the hard disk, used
limited partitions of the disk etc.) with no success. The machine is still
under warranty, but I would like to know whats wrong before I make a warranty
claim.
Could anyone tell me whats up? I am suspecting the disk controller. Does that
make sense?
(If I run FDISK from the floppy, it says something like "Error reading hard
disk". Only once did I get an error message from the diagnostics, but I
forgot to note it, and have not been able to duplicate it.)
Thanks
Partha Dasgupta
Geogia Tech
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Partha Dasgupta
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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