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- From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Microscience 7100-20 IDE HD Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.162444.784@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:24:43 GMT
- References: <cheese3.27.0@ioc.unibe.ch>
- Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <cheese3.27.0@ioc.unibe.ch>, cheese3@ioc.unibe.ch (Daniel Hirschi) writes:
- > I have problems with my harddisk: It kepps making bad sectors! After it had
- > some 30 bad sectors about six months ago, i sent it in, they did a low-level-
- > format and it was ok. But now it gets bad sectors again! It is a IDE-Harddrive
- > MICROSCIENCE 7100-20 with 120 mb capacity.
- > I called in to the technician and was told that the errors tend to come
- > more often with age and number of low-level-formats.
- >
- > What should I do???? Calibrate and Speedstor 5.2 are available, but should I
- > use them?? Anybody having the same problems???
- >
- > Thanx! Daniel
- > Daniel Hirschi >> RFC: hirschi@ioc.unibe.ch
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- > University of Bern >> DECnet (CH): 49852::hirschi
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- I had a similar problem with one of these drives. I put a scope on my power
- supply and found a signal that was anything but flat. A new power supply
- cured the problem.
-
- Allen Mulvey
- mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
-