Hard Drive and paralle prineter connections on a UNIX 7300 PC

[Kannan Varadhan]

I have been having a lot of problems with my hard drive on the UNIX-PC.
It is a 20M drive, and every now and then lets out horrible grinking
noises.  Eventually, it would conk out with HDERRs of some sort.  I fI
opened the PC, I would find nothing wrong with it (but then I am not
sure what to look for), and when I put it back together, everything
would work perfectly.

Recently, I tried to hook up a HP-Thinkjet parallel printer to the PC,
but it just didn't seem to work.  The printer reacted eveytime the PC
came up, or soimething, but nothing got printed out.  I opened the box,
and dared to venture in deeper than before, and now, the Hard disk does
not work at all.  It lets out one miserable groan, and then refuses to
RECAL at all, though the disk is spinning away to glory be.

As such, the machine even refuses to boot off the Hard disk now.  Is the
disk completely irrecoverable?  Or can I do something to the disk, so
that I can re-use it!  I do not care very much for the data on the disk
itself, as that is not an immediate concern of mine at all.  I would
like very much for the PC to start up.  What can I try on the PC, about
it's starting up?

I think this topic has beaten oft before, so someonoe who can help me,
may just wish to send me mail, and spare others the agony of re-reading
old hash!  If others would like to know, I can send them mail, and if
there are sufficient responses, I can even summarise it on the net
again.

Thanks muchly for taking al the trouble,

KANNAN

PS:  While we are on this topic, wher are the batteries on the PC, that
drive it's clock when there is no power etc.?  On one of my forays, I
seem tohave dislodged it, and don't know where it is, so I can repair
it?

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