on 01.10.2002 12:31, Michael Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To fix deteriorating access to my hard drive a couple > of weeks ago, I got and followed through on advice on > buying a new drive (and am very satisfied with all the > advice and my resulting purchase). > > I've successfully installed, initialized, and > partitioned a 40GB Seagate with AHARD card and > installed OS9.0 on 2 of the partitions. > > Unfortunately, the original problem occurs using the > new drive as well. So, either the presence of the old > HD with its problems is affecting something else, or > the problem is caused by something else. It's the drive. Problems on a SCSI chain can freeze the whole computer while it waits for data it expects but takes forever to find.
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