Re: Sider hard drive

[BRIAN.HAMMACK@rook.wa.com (brian hammack)]

 Ae198@lafn.Org cracked the whip, shouting:

 AO| Well I have this problem with this drive and hope someone can help
   | me. I aquired this drive about a week ago and the only way I could
   | use it is plug the card into slot 6 and access it that way.

Have you tried reformatting the drive with the utilities?  How big of a
Sider is it?  (10m, 20m, or 40m?)  I've got my Cider 10m in slot 7, so
my system boots on it.  I'm really pleased with the drive.

   | yesterday I got a funny clicking sound out of the Sider and have
   | not figured out what it is. The Sider won't operate so it looks
   | like its something internal ...

No clue there.  Running the installation disk to reformat the drive in
the slot you want it in could possibly take care of the problem, or not.
Once formatted, you should run the ProSel-8 program MR FIXIT to lock out
the bad blocks (my drive has 12 of them!) just in case.

 * 2qwk! 2.0b5 * Consider the daffodil; I'll be looking through your stuff.