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In article <817161705snz@taffy317.demon.co.uk>
           Alan@taffy317.demon.co.uk "Alan P Jones" writes:

> > Ravenscliffe High School, a special school near Halifax were donated 5
> > ps/2 model 55sx mca pc's, they have been getting a fair amount of use
> > and recently one of them refused to boot with the error number 10483 and
> > instructions to look this up in the ibm manual:-)
>
> The manual says
>
> ps/2 controller reset failure
> ps/2 controller (drv sel0-config/stat bad)
>
> I suspect your heads on your hard disk have stuck. This is a common
> problem on these IBM machines.

What you have is commonly known as Stiction. Where the cylinder and heads
are stuck, their is no cure as such, but one method which works for me it
to take the hard disk in both hands and flick it 2 times, this will
release the heads. BE WARNED ! I am not saying do this, I have done this
to about 30 IBM and all of them have worked, but you need to have nerves of
steel and alot of experiecne. The other option is to buy a new hard disk.

AxL

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