[rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale at buy.com)

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Steve Sandau <ssandau at bath.tmac.com> wrote:
> When I first started my current job, we had a 3/80 that showed that 
> problem with the 105Mb root drive. I think I even recall a bulletin
> from Sun or Quantum about it. The official instructions were three
> steps I believe: first, tap the drive, second unmount it and tap it,
> third, remount it and drop the whole case about an inch onto the
> table. I may misremember, but I think that was the solution.

When I was in college, we had DEC Pro-350's,a nd if the machien
wouldn't boot, that was the suggested fix - prop up the front edge of
the machine and drop it about 1" to the table top (not the whole
machine, just the front edge).

It worked well.


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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