How bad is it?

Edward C. Bennett edward at twg.com
Wed Jun 12 04:51:49 AEST 1991


My 3B1 died on me last night. I tried booting the floppy filesystem
and got this lovely message (folded for clarity):

#HDERR: ST:51 EF:10 CI:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 DMACNT:FFFF
	DCRREG:F0 MCRREG:8B00

When I got home it was making lots of funny noises that sounded like the
hard disk seeking back and forth. I tried an 'ls' and it crashed.

Pressing the hardware reset gave me the marching boxes. As soon as I
put in the boot floppy it found the disk and booted. It found the
motherboard and memory OK and asked for the floppy filesystem. I put
in the disk and hit return, it gave the above error 3 times and died.
I haven't tried running diagnostics yet.

Can anyone decode the error message? Is my disk dead?

-- 
Edward C. Bennett - The other WIN/MHS & MMDF guy	edward at twg.com
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