sld@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Steven Louis Davis) (12/25/88)
I was wondering which piece of hardware is most suspect in the following
situation. I have two hard disks run from the same controler, one 32MB and
one 41MB. The smaller disk fails intermittantly and my diagnostic program
reports the following errors:
RANDOM SEEK FAILED
Write fault.
FORWARD SEEK FAILED
Bad command received by controller.
These errors always occur on Head:0 Sector:1 with various Cylinders. My
diagnostic program suggests first the controller then the hard disk as the
culprit but I'm wondering if any of you netters out there have more
enlightening ideas about the problem. One puzzling thing is that the disk
seems to work ok after I run the diagnostics a few times. Then later it
gets flakey again.
Thanks for any help
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