dpm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (David Maynard) (05/01/89)
> Has anyone else had experience with the hard disk controller failing on a > 6300+? The System Diags sometimes get timeouts, sometimes return > "controller failure," and sometimes pass. Our friends have another 6300+ > with similar problems. Based on the advice of one of your fellow news readers, I took the system apart and reseated as many of the controller chips as possible. Of course, this also meant reseating the board itself and the drive cables. When I powered it up again it worked wonderfully. I told our friends who had been having the same problem. When they reseated things, theirs was fixed too! I don't know if this bodes well for the future of the system, but at least things are up an running now. Thanks for your help. -David --- David P. Maynard (dpm@cs.cmu.edu) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 --- Any opinions expressed are mine. I haven't asked the ECE department or CMU what they think, and I'm tired of getting in trouble when someone thinks I did. --- --