yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee/;093090;eegrad) (10/01/90)
Hello. My Miniscribe MFM HD on my XT worked fine for 2 years, and now, in the midst of a quest for a faulty memory chip, in the course of which many chip swaps were preformed -- but not on any HD components, the system gives me a "1701" at boot time and 2 beeps, and refuses to acknowledge the existence of the HD even to the extent of performing a low level format with debug. So, is this a sign of HD death? Or did maybe teeny tiny currents caused by the removal of a single memory chip from a periheral card too soon after powering down zap one of those nasty looking chips on the controller card? Or what? Any advice, or experience by email welcome. jy, yee@ee.ucla.edu