draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (dday) (08/04/88)
I am having seek problems with a Seagate ST-225 drive using
a Winchestor WD1002S-WX2 controller card. The machine is a
Fountain XT clone with the hard drive added after purchase.
Symptoms: Turn machine on. Sometimes it boots, sometines
it dosen't. (from the hard drive, always boots from floppy)
After the machine is booted trying to do just about anything
that requires a hard drive access causes the drive light to
turn on, the drive can be heard stepping or "clicking" as it
tries to read the disk. This continues for about 15 to 20
seconds. It then prompts you with a seek error message and
the dos prompt to abort, ignore, fail or retry. Disk accesses
are successful about 20% of the time.
I have tried running DOS chkdsk and Norton disk test. Neither
of them will even run. The machine gets seek errors almost
immediatly. This machine is approx. 2 years old ... but it has
MINIMAL run time on it. I don't know if this has anything to do
with it but the machine hadn't been used in over 2 months when it
was turned on and displayed the problems right away. It was
running fine before that.
Any ideas anybody. Is it the disk or the controller card?
Dave Draper
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In article <1650@bu-tyng.bu.edu> draper@bu-tyng.UUCP (dday) writes: > I am having seek problems with a Seagate ST-225 drive using > a Winchestor WD1002S-WX2 controller card. The machine is a > Fountain XT clone with the hard drive added after purchase. say no more. one problem with fountains which i have had my share of is the top of the case touching the top of the controller board and causing the drive controller to work less than perfectly. my local fountain dealer has confirmed this problem. he says it is caused by people putting their monitors on top of the case. hope this helps. -- jfh@rpp386.uucp (The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers) "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" -- Hanlon's Razor