santol@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (shawn.r.antol) (03/06/90)
Second request for help. Nobody responded to the first one... Please help me! Recently I installed an EDSI drive into my true blue PC/AT. The drive works normal unless I am doing extensive disk I/O. The disk I/O ranges from compiling, using MASM or MSC5.0, or editing a very large document using Word Perfect 5.0. The problem is that very randomly I am getting the dreaded "Not Ready reading Drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore" error, or "Abort, Retry, Ignore error reading Drive C:" Sometimes pressing retry will succeed, other times, I lose my work! :-( Has anybody else experienced these problems with the EDSI drives? I have no TSR's running, and I certainly don't think Word Perfect is trying to do anything tricky with the drive/controller. I have the following: IBM PC/AT 6 MHz True Blue 640K RAM - 120nSec DOS 3.3 (Also True Blue) Western Digital EDSI Controller WD1007/WAH Control Data 90 Meg Drive Model: 94216-106 (ESDI) 1:1 Interleave 2:1 Also Tried! config.sys: break=on buffers=20 files=20 device=c:\dos\ansi.sys autoexec.bat: prompt $p$g path c:\;c:\dos The distributor of controller/disk have not been very helpful so I am turning my "pleas" to the net. Please send email to: att!ihlpb!santol Shawn Antol AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, USA voice: 708-979-5622 Or reply to the "net".
feustel@well.sf.ca.us (David Alan Feustel) (03/08/90)
I've had the same problem with the same drive/controller running OS/2 on a Dell 310, so I suspect an intermittant hardware problem. It usually happens during an MKS cp command or an xcopy command, both of which beat hard on the disk subsystem. -- Phone: (home) 219-482-9631 E-mail: feustel@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax,apple,hplabs,pacbell}!well!feustel USMAIL: Dave Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805