Bob, at 08:40 on Fri, Jul 22 1994, you wrote to Brenton Vettoretti ...

 BL> BTW, I had a nasty shock this morning. My WD250 hard drive 
 BL> wouldn't boot (DOS - HDD controller failure). Thank Christ is did
 BL>  eventually. and let me back up all my C and VB programming work, 
 BL> but if it runs true to form, it'll be dead in a week, and I'll 
 BL> be trying to collect on the 3-year warranty.

With the current winter extremes of temperature, try reseating all your ISA
cards, particularly the HDD controller (or even relocate it to another
slot).  Chances are that it's the controller, and not the WD250 that's
throwing the error.

 BL> How do I do that - through the seller or the distributor?

Seller first, distributor second (when the seller tells you to piss off).

 BL> PS: Well, it worked again this morning. So far, so good...

 BL> Bob (the inconsiderate prick) Lawrence.

I didn't know that there were _three_ of us!  ;-)

Regards, Bill

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