mwh5795@ultb.UUCP (M.W. Houwers) (04/06/89)
Well, I'm back. If anyone remembers, I had the problem with the 20 Meg Tandy hard card a while back. I went to the area Radio Shack, and they sent the drive out to be fixed. When it came back, they said that they fixed a bad connection on the controller. As before, everything went well for a week, then it started to give me the infamous "1701" or controller error. (For those who don't remember, I have a Tandy 1000SX, 2 5-1/4" 360K floppies, an internal 1200-baud modem, 640K memory). Now that the problem is recurring with a supposedly fixed hard card, I am wondering if the problem might lie with the power source (i.e. - not enough to run everything). I have talked to some other people and they mentioned that this could be a source of the problem. Anyone out there have any pointers or other ideas? I've reseated the drive to no avail. Thanks in advance, Mike Houwers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Mike Houwers "See the man with the lonely eyes, bitnet: MWH5795@RITVAXA Take his hand, you'll be surprised" uucp: ...ucbvax!ucbcad!ames!rochester!rit!ultb!mwh5795 or " " " " !ritcv!mxh5795
noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More) (04/09/89)
In article <602@ultb.UUCP> mwh5795@ultb.UUCP (M.W. Houwers (713ICS)) writes: >Well, I'm back. If anyone remembers, I had the problem with the 20 Meg >Tandy hard card a while back. I went to the area Radio Shack, and they sent >the drive out to be fixed. When it came back, they said that they fixed >a bad connection on the controller. As before, everything went well for a >week, then it started to give me the infamous "1701" or controller error. >(For those who don't remember, I have a Tandy 1000SX, 2 5-1/4" 360K floppies, >an internal 1200-baud modem, 640K memory). Ahh yes! the infamous "1701" error. Thats a controller timeout error message. Basically it means that the system cannot communicate with the hard disk controller. In 99% of the cases that I have experianced it is related to a "crapped" out controller board. Since the hard dive is generally ok, tell the Tandy folks to replace the controller card itself. Noel -- Noel B. Del More | {decvax|harvard}!zinn!ubbs-nh!noel 17 Meredith Drive | noel@ubbs-nh.mv.com Nashua, New Hampshire 03063 | It's unix me son! `taint spozed tah make cents