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- From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: The vanishing harddrive...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.162828.5381@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:28:28 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- I have a really strange problem. On a 386 in the lab that has 2 RLL
- Mitsubishi harddrives (both partitioned in 2 meaning there are 4
- logical drives, c: to f:), every once in a reboot (I reboot the machines
- every morning. Just to start a new day off on a new slate. Strange
- custom, huh?:) ) it would show that the second physical harddrive is
- empty, although it is there. To clarify, the first physical drive contains
- drives c: & d: and the second one contains drives e: & f:. Things would
- normally work ok, but every once in a reboot, drives e: and f: are
- both empty even though I do see drives e: and f:. But if I shut it off
- and turn it back on enough times, it would come back. And everything
- would be fine again. Including reboots. While the drives are empty, I
- can access it too, "echo > junk" would create the file and I can
- "type" it to see the contents for example. I know I shouldnt do this
- but I just want to make sure the drive is still accesible. So the
- drives e: & f: are perfectly fine except they are empty. That's what
- makes me think that this is not a hardware problem. I'm using DOS 5
- and I have removed all drivers and TSRs from config.sys & autoexec.bat
- and this is still the case. So I'm thinking maybe DOS is screwing up
- somehow and the FAT in memory for drives e: & f: .... well, something
- happen to them during bootup. Any other thoughts? Thanks.
-
- Thomas.
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