Re: Sick Chinook hard drive

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

| pp000283@interramp.com (pp000283@interramp.com (Eric Schatz)) writes:
| 
| >I used a CT-20c for about 4 years on my //c, the only known way (other
| >than finding a ProFile) to put a hard disk on such a computer, but then
| >the controller died. I sent it to Sequential for repairs (Chinook having
| >disappeared by then). They couldn't figure out how to fix it so they did a
| >low-level format (thank you ProSEL backup, whew!) and when it seemed to be
| >running they shipped it back.
| 
| >I restored my backup and the drive worked again for about ten hours then
| >the same symptoms returned: damage to the disk directory as verified by
| >ProSEL.
| 
|   Could be a bad hard drive - bad cables - bad RAM in your //c.
| 
| >I assume I just wore out the hard disk mechanism...I thought those things
| >had MTBF of like 30k hours!
| 
|   Yes. You shouldn't be getting random corruption on a bad drive - 
| instead, I/O errors are the usual.
| 
| >Finally, a question: can I put my own hard drive in the thing? Do I have
| >to do anything to the controller to let it see a larger drive size (I'd
| >try to find something cheap at a PC hotel show or something).
| 
|   It has to be a SCSI drive - any size up to 100MB will do.
| 
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well, you did say that you backed up... could it be a software problem? 
(nasty app that trashes things?)

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