sc155113@seas.gwu.edu (Timur Tabi) (04/10/90)
I have an original IBM XT, and I recently ran Prime Solution's Disk Technician Plus on the 10MB hard drive. It ran for seven hours and found absolutely no errors. Nothing. Nada. Zero. According to DT, it's a perfect drive. I've never run DT or anything else like it before. The drive is about five years old. I dropped the system twice, which caused it to crash, although a low-level format fixed it. On top of that, the computer is in a room that doesn't have central heating, so during the winter, we have to start up the stove to heat the room. This means that the computer can switch from 30 degrees to 70 degrees back to 30 again in 24 hours, for several weeks. In other words, my hard drive should be shot to hell by now, but instead it's perfect. Can anyone explain this???? Is my hard drive enchanted? Is DT blind to the errors? What's going on?
weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) (04/11/90)
In article <1769@sparko.gwu.edu> sc155113@seas.gwu.edu () writes: [stuff deleted...] >I've never run DT or anything else like it before. The drive is about >five years old. I dropped the system twice, which caused it to crash, >although a low-level format fixed it. On top of that, the computer is >in a room that doesn't have central heating, so during the winter, we >have to start up the stove to heat the room. This means that the computer >can switch from 30 degrees to 70 degrees back to 30 again in 24 hours, for >several weeks. > [more stuff deleted...] I can't explain why your hard drive is alive, but cycling your computer through temperatures like that is terrible for the rest of the machine. Neil _____ _____ ------------------------------------ \ / \ / / Neil Weisenfeld \ / \ / / Computer Science and Engineering \ / /\ \ / / Unviersity of Pennsylvania \ / / \ \ / / -------------------------------------- \ / / \ \/ / InterNet: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu \ / / \ / USPS: 3700 Spruce St. Box 572 \/____/ \_____/ Philadelphia, PA 19104 --------------------------------------