6300+ HDC Failure

[David Maynard]

> Has anyone else had experience with the hard disk controller failing on a
> 6300+?  The System Diags sometimes get timeouts, sometimes return
> "controller failure," and sometimes pass.  Our friends have another 6300+
> with similar problems.

Based on the advice of one of your fellow news readers, I took the system
apart and reseated as many of the controller chips as possible.  Of course,
this also meant reseating the board itself and the drive cables.  When I
powered it up again it worked wonderfully.  I told our friends who had been
having the same problem.  When they reseated things, theirs was fixed too!

I don't know if this bodes well for the future of the system, but at least
things are up an running now.

Thanks for your help.

-David
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 David P. Maynard (dpm at cs.cmu.edu)
 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Carnegie Mellon University
 Pittsburgh, PA  15213
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 Any opinions expressed are mine.  I haven't asked the ECE department
 or CMU what they think, and I'm tired of getting in trouble when someone
 thinks I did.
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