Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!partha From: partha@gitpyr.UUCP (Partha Dasgupta) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: PC/XT disk problem (could be controller?) Message-ID: <194@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 22:58:55 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.194 Posted: Sun Mar 3 22:58:55 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:05:43 EST Distribution: na Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 30 Occasionally (getting very frequent recently) when I power up my XT, it comes up with the ROM Basic! If I boot DOS from a diskette in drive A, I get DOS, but I cannot access or change to drive C: (hard disk). It says "Incorrect drive specification" The only way to get it to work properly is to run the diagnostics. After it passes diagnostics, I can boot from hard disk (the diagnostics jiggle the hard disk quite a bit). I have tried *all* that I can think of (even reformatted the hard disk, used limited partitions of the disk etc.) with no success. The machine is still under warranty, but I would like to know whats wrong before I make a warranty claim. Could anyone tell me whats up? I am suspecting the disk controller. Does that make sense? (If I run FDISK from the floppy, it says something like "Error reading hard disk". Only once did I get an error message from the diagnostics, but I forgot to note it, and have not been able to duplicate it.) Thanks Partha Dasgupta Geogia Tech -- Partha Dasgupta Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!partha