[Duo2400] Re: latest installment of the 280c saga

[Steve Sharpe]

At 7:29 PM -0400 6/5/03, Tom and Lisa P wrote:
>>>The battery you have is very evil-bad.
>>
>>Evil bad? As in what way? Like, totally, totally drained...to the
>>point that it has become a black hole sucking the life out of my
>>system?
>
>Black Hole - bad.

I left it in the computer all day with the adapter plugged in...still 
would not charge.

>
>>Any thoughts as to how I can resurrect the hard drive in my duo dock
>>that this battery has apparently somehow killed? It's completely
>>disappeared off my desktop. Norton's found it last night, called it
>>damaged and could not repair it. Today, even Norton's can't find it.
>>The OS is having trouble recognising the floppy drive in the dock as
>>well. My next step is to reinstall my system software onto the 280c
>>drive, as I'm theorizing that perhaps the disk drivers have been
>>corrupted.
>
>probably a conicidence the drive went south at the same time.  To
>install, I pop the top off the dock and use a SCSI cable to string up
>a CD Drive and install that way.

I think you are right. After thrashing around with it for the past 
few days I booted it up a half hour ago with the intention of 
reinstalling my OS onto the duo drive...and there was the dock drive 
on my desktop! I think there is something loose inside the dock.

As for the floppy, it is still dead, but I can live without that.

Thanks for all your suggestions. As for the battery I am going to try 
to get it fixed under warranty.
-- 
Steve
sbsharpe at dramex.org
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