Ed,
It sounds like you need to physically format the hard drive. That involves
plugging an IBM XT keyboard into the DIN socket in the back of your
instrument, starting the 477 up with the boot disc, erasing everything on
the drive, and creating new sectors, cylinders, etc. Your ABI service
engineer should have the procedure.
If that doesn't work, you will need to get a new hard drive. ABI sells them
for $400 if my memory is correct.
Good luck,
Russ
--On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 5:49 PM -0700 "Ed Cheung" <ECheung@biomira.com>
wrote:
> We have an ABI 477 sequencer in our lab. It was moth-balled for over a
> year and until recently we tried to determine if it is still
> operational. This is the first difficulty we have encountered.
>
> The computer will boot up from the hard drive and try to launch the
> application software and ceased. Try to boot it up from the system disk
> and it will fail reading drive A and give the standard DOS message like
> Abort, Retry or... Without a keyboard input, there is not much a user
> can do.
>
> Since it is an old instrument, I don't know if it worth having the
> service engineer from PE Biosystem to try to fix it or should I consider
> getting rid of it.
>
> May be someone can give us some pointers on what the problem might be
> and is there a quick fix for it?
>
> Ed Cheung,
> Manager, Analytical Development,
> Biomira Inc.
>
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