From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: HD             
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:52:37
Message Number  5994

   Okay Mr. Science, I need a little help. A computer at work woke up
dead the other day and when we sent it out for service, they had 
replaced the hard disk (said the old one wasn't responding right and
they didn't have the equipment to service it). They yanked out the old
one a freind brought it back and gave it to me. It is a 40 mB, 977cyl,
5 head Magnetic Peripherals drive, P/N 40300. Yes for a PC compatable.
I took it home at hooked it up to my power supply and the motor runs and
when I hooked my cables up to it, the heads moved across the disk, 
waited, moved out to the parked(?) position and the solenoid to lock the
heads kicked back in and the drive motor shut-off with the LED on the
front blinking on and off. Everything seems to be 'mechanically' okay,
but I'm no Hard Disk Man myself. Any ideas on what could be done to
fix 'er up? Also, my driver controller card has a flat cable run to the
floppies that both plugs come off one cable, but my hard disk only has
a single plug on its' cable. There is another power plug for another
disk drive...can I just get another cable to run another HD from my
card?......let me know, I'd like to take my memory hog PC up to
72Mb cheap if I can.....s'later