paulr@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Paul Riddle) (05/17/89)
Hi, I have just bought a 7300 with a 20 meg drive. I also have a Miniscribe 8438 (30 meg, 3.5 inches, 68ms, shock mount) and was wondering if it would drop in in place of the 20 meg. It came as a package with an RLL controller (Western Digital WD1002A-27X I think) but no data sheet, so I'm not sure if it will work with the controller in the UNIX PC or not. Assuming I can get a data sheet from Miniscribe, how do I go about formatting it (since it is not listed as one of the drive options in the Diagnostic program)? On another subject, I am considering returning my 20 meg because I think it might be faulty. I brought UNIX up (with no problems) and it was running flawlessly for about 6 hours. Then the hard disk started making sort of a whining noise (it sort of sounded like it was speeding up) and I got a message something like "panic-init failed, press hardware reset to reboot". Now it won't re-boot, and whenever I try to do something with the disk (including parking the heads) I get a message something like "Hard drive restore failed, response=4". Any ideas? Thanks, -- Paul Riddle | paulr@umbc3.umbc.edu Univ. Of Md., Baltimore County | ..!{uunet,haven}!umbc3!paulr