So, I dug this old XT 5160 out of a friend’s dad’s attic a few months back (guy was moving and offered to give us a BUNCH of old hardware so long as we extricated it from the house). First power-on, the memtest ran through all 640k without a hitch and then hit the floppy drives. Finding nothing there, the system booted straight into BASIC. Satsified, I unplugged and moved it to fiddle with the rest of the systems.<\/p>\n
A bit later, I moved the IBM back over and started to mess with it some more, only to be greeted by an error 1701. Some Googling later, I opened the machine and re-seated the HDD controller, checked some cables and whatnot. Rebooted and got “Error loading operating system from fixed disk”. Obviously, being stored in an attic for the better part of two decades can’t be good for data integrity, but I’d like to make sure there isn’t a hardware fault before I spend the time\/effort\/money needed to get some working 360k DOS floppies.<\/p>\n
I can hear the disk spin up (the first couple times, the thing made one hell of a racket ;)…sounds smooth now, though), both lights on the front of the disk come on (one solid, one flashing as the disk is accessed). Odd thing is, I can’t hear anything else coming out of the disk aside from the platters spinning.<\/p>\n
My assumption would be that for a disk as old as me, there would be some kind of audible noise as the heads move around, and the lack thereof would point to the heads being stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9236","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/9236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}