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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!ungar
- From: ungar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeffrey Ungar)
- Subject: Conner IDE 120MB Drive Failure :-(
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.085644.28855@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: hard disk, conner, IDE
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Distribution: na
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 08:56:44 GMT
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- Occasionally my hard disk makes an ugly racket (the heads buzz around
- insanely) for a while, during which time it is unusable. Until today,
- these episodes were mercifully short and uneventful, but this evening
- I turned my machine on, the disk began to buzz continuously, and it would
- not boot up. In fact, it eventually reported a failure for drive C: to
- respond. Fortunately, after many attempts, I got the thing booted and
- most -- but not all -- of my files were intact. NDD now reports many
- bad clusters whereas before this latest incident there were none :-(
- (and some files have been eviscerated, with their entrails strewn
- over other files, directories, etc.)
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- My system is still under warrantee so I should be able to get a free
- (or at least cheap) replacement, but I was wondering if anyone else out
- there has experienced a malfunction like this. If 20000 hours MTBF is
- supposed to be the average, I wonder what the spread is....
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- Jeff Ungar
- ungar@embezzle.stanford.edu
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