Jonathan De Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> Speaking of drives, is there anyway to fix a HDD controller on a
 JS> drive?  I have a Seagate 2 gig drive that lost its controller,
 JS> whatever that is.  Thats the first HD failure I've had since around
 JS> 1985 when my 10 meg "winchester" drive failed...  I've run all WD

 JDBP> Without knowing the exact details of what "lost its
 JDBP> controller" means, I couldn't tell you.

The error message was "HDD controller failure"  Thats it.  The system wouldn't 
boot with that drive in, wouldn't get past checking the drives.  I could run
FDISK from the install disks, but the drive was not listed.  

 JDBP> I doubt that you'd be able to find replacements for the
 JDBP> integrated drive electronics on the drive unit itself, if
 JDBP> those are indeed what failed, without coming to some special
 JDBP> arrangement with the manufacturer.

I suspected that, although I was curious of whether that message actually was
correct.  I've seen lots of error messages that were not really accurate over
the years, this one probably was.  It was used only for a back-up disk, and
also had a 504 meg DOS partition with WIN95 crap on it, that I didn't care if
I lost or not.  Since I only paid $25 bucks for the drive used several years
ago, I guess I didn't lose much.  

                                              Jack 
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