6300+ HDC Failure
David Maynard
dpm at k.gp.cs.cmu.edu
Mon May 1 23:52:52 AEST 1989
> Has anyone else had experience with the hard disk controller failing on a
> 6300+? The System Diags sometimes get timeouts, sometimes return
> "controller failure," and sometimes pass. Our friends have another 6300+
> with similar problems.
Based on the advice of one of your fellow news readers, I took the system
apart and reseated as many of the controller chips as possible. Of course,
this also meant reseating the board itself and the drive cables. When I
powered it up again it worked wonderfully. I told our friends who had been
having the same problem. When they reseated things, theirs was fixed too!
I don't know if this bodes well for the future of the system, but at least
things are up an running now.
Thanks for your help.
-David
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David P. Maynard (dpm at cs.cmu.edu)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Any opinions expressed are mine. I haven't asked the ECE department
or CMU what they think, and I'm tired of getting in trouble when someone
thinks I did.
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