Re: Sick Chinook hard drive

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

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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