dba+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Anderson) (09/01/89)
A friend's hard drive (Jasmine 20) has gone through a pattern of failure that will sound familiar to those following the recent thread on hard disk failures: it spins, but doesn't boot up. It did this intermittently for several months, and then failed completely. A local repair shop says the only way to fix it is to replace the drive itself: $400. They've said that the power supply and controller electronics are just fine. The old drive is a standard 20meg Seagate drive -- so my question is, can we just go out and buy a new 20meg Seagate drive and plug it in? I see these drives advertised in PC magazines for about $220-240 -- why should this cost $400? (Obviously at that price, she'll just buy a new drive, a la Chuq.) What is everyone else doing with their broken disk drives? --david dba+@andrew.cmu.edu
mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford) (09/01/89)
I had a lot of trouble that I thought was due to my new drive, but it turned out to be the SCSI port from Total Systems Integration that I had put into my 512 K (along with TSI memory that worked fine). I borrowed a different SCSI port which worked fine. Much to their credit, the replacement port arrived promptly, no hassle, but I have not yet put it in. I'll flame if it does not work... -- Michael David Crawford Consulting for: Oddball Enterprises Octel Communications Corp 694 Nobel Drive 890 Tasman Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Milpitas CA 95035 pyramid!vsi1,!octel!mike CI$ 72377,623 Ain't got no cache, ain't no file, ain't got no disk to make you smile, Don`t worry, be happy!