am42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alexander Paul Morris) (02/04/91)
My current MFM controller got flaky on me. It works for a few minutes
then gets Sector not found, drive not ready, ..., etc. I went out and
bought a new one. It's from CompuAdd, but it's a WD1006V-MM2 (Western
Digital). Now, theoretically, all I should have had to do was pop in
the new one and all would work fine. I know the cables are correct, the
setup is correct for the pc (cmos), except the drive always boots up
with that high pitched buzzing noise that lasts for about 2 seconds and
repeats about 20 times and the gets a Drive error. I've tried just
about everything but to no avail. What could be the problem? The old
MFM is one of the older full-length models. When I plop it back in, the
hard disk boots up fine again (at least for a couple of minutes until it
gets flakey again). PLEASE HELP!!! Could there be some special
switches to set or something? I also noticed that it seemed like Disk
Master was able to access the drive and was willing to do an init on it,
but I have it filled with data and I'm not going to reinitialize the
drive. But is it possible that I may have to. Could it be some MFM
controller discrepency that requires that I reinit the hard disk because
timing is slightly different or something? Thanks for any help...
Alexander Morris "People die, things change...
Carnegie Mellon It's sad."