Re: disk drive troubles

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From: Martin Liddle
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:00

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In article <16jYGBAVnxF5EwAd@walsh.demon.co.uk>, Edmond Walsh
<Edmond@walsh.demon.co.uk> writes
>I recently bought a nice new IBM DJNA 352030 disk drive (about
>20GBytes).  I have tried installing it on a PC with a gigabyte
>motherboard (GA 586 TX3).  The disk drive just does not want to know.  I
>have tried it as a slave on EIDE0 and as a master on EIDE1 but it is not
>detected.  I suspect I may have a dead disk drive but I wonder if there
>is anything else I should be looking at?  Any ideas anyone?
>TIA
Does it spin up?  Does it make a clunking noise during boot up?  I have
had a couple of these DOA recently.
-- 
Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 27 Garforth Close, 
Cramlington, Northumberland, England, NE23 6EW.
Phone: 01670-712624.  Fax: 01670-717324.

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