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- From: jmp@dar.csiro.au (POWELL James;Change Jmp Impacts;575)
- Subject: Annoying hard disk problem
- Message-ID: <jmp.714209800@atmos>
- Summary: intermittent lockup on reading
- Keywords: hard disk
- Sender: @aurora.dar.csiro.au
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:36:40 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- G'day,
-
- I have a rather annoying problem with my hard disk and I would appreciate if
- anyone out there could shed some light on the problem.
-
- I have replaced the 70 meg hard disk (Imprimis) in my 386 AT-Clone with a
- Conner Peripherals 100 meg hard disk. The drive operates perfectly except for
- an intermittent 'lock up' during reading (appears to only happen while
- reading large files). This lasts for approximately 5-10 seconds then the
- machine carries on as if nothing had happened (the drive activity light
- remains constantly on during the lock up). The only program that I have found
- which objects to this behavour is 'coretest' (it intermittently reports a
- read error).
-
- I am finding this most frustrating and any ideas would be greatly
- appreciated!
-
- PS.
-
- Machine stats:
-
- - 386 @ 25Mhz AT-Clone
- - American Megatrends BIOS (386A V1.0 10-05-89)
- - Paradise 512k VGA
- - Conner Peripherals 100 Meg Hard Disk
-
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