unbootable HD, the solution

[Charles Crawford]

Heh.  I used to be the sysop for the MCB BBS fpr almost 9 years.  PCBOARD 
with up to ten users.  Those were the days.  I miss them.

-- charlie Crawford.
At 06:29 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Of course I remember most of those pkgs... I've been running a bbs for
>over a year now.
>
>--
>A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up 
>yours!"
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> > Ah, this reminds me of a very interesting problem I ran into.
> > Mind you this is from the days when most chips were socketed and
> > actually cost some money. Yes, this was an old 386-SX 25 I was running
> > my bbs and Fidonet mail service on.
> > I bet some of you remember Fidonet, BinkleyTerm, node lists, RBBS,
> > Maximus, Opus, and so on. Hell does anyone remember bonk and the node
> > list mungers?
> > In any case this old 386 was crankin' for its time, but it had one
> > incredibly odd problem. You could put a floppy in, read, copy from it,
> > and all that no problem. If you attempted to write to it the trouble
> > would start. Files on the disk would disappear or the disk would just
> > turn out trashed. Months went by with every possible diagnostic trick
> > done and never did find the problem. I ended up deciding it was the DMA
> > chip on the board, but never got a chance to replace it. Ended up
> > tossing the board or giving it away I can't remember, but upgraded to a
> > screamming 386-DX 33.
> > And to think I ran that bbs on an AST 286 with 130Mb hd and that was
> > considered one of the largest bbs systems in the area. Oh yes screamming
> > along at 9600 baud.<grin>
> > I've not heard a story yet that has surprised me about hardware
> > failures. I can remember when failures were common whereas now they are
> > rear.
> >
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