jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (J. Palmer) (10/13/89)
My wife and son both have XT clones with 30 meg hard drives. One machine is nearly a year old and the other is only 2 months old. In both of them, the hard drives seem to have gone midwest (not quite gone south, but well on their way). Every once in awhile, while trying to access certain files, the drives make a grinding-groaning-moaning sound. This happened as well while we were running PC Tools compress on the machines. On the older machine, we often get a message "Disk boot failure..." when we first turn it on. We've noticed that the sound does not seem related to either the software or the hard drives, after having a friend run some diagnostic checks. We're stymied. Are there any suggestions? Could the RLL controllers be causing the problems? -- reply to jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca ||----John Palmer, London, Ont, CANADA N6A 5C2 (519) 661-3533-----------------||----The Economics Institute for Journalists ============================================================================= "I was here. Where were you?" -=[ Godot ]=-