Date   : Thu, 03 Jan 1991 19:32:25 GMT
From   : kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: good news

Greetings. I got the K10 working. Here's how (maybe someone else got a
non-working one too)

If you take the case off and face the HD controller board, try to
locate all the mounting screws for the PCB. There should be 4. Now,
look at the top-left one (nearest the face panel on top) and take it
out (with a screwdriver). The problem with my K10 was that, after
years of vibrations, the HD controller shifted so much as to make a
resistors lead touch the grounding screw. That's why, early on, it's a
just a "flakey" HD drive and only later (after many angry HITS on the
right side ;-) does it fail completely...

Well, all I did was put a small plastic washer on that mounting screw,
formatted the drive, and let it run all night. No problems yet!
[wheeeeee]

Now for the question (no, not related). I would like to know more
about the TurboROM. I took out the old 10MB drive and put in a 40 MB
28 ms. I UNDERSTAND that the most I can get is a speed improvement,
but I want MORE :-) A person I know put in 2 10MB drives and just put
a switch on the front panel so he can switch them in and out ! :-)
Viola, 20MB! [grin]

Take care.