Inverter creating interferance for HDD & FDD ??

[daveqb]

skip to second last paragraph for my question

i cant find anything by searching, kinda hard to get the right search phrase.

I stash my inverter for my Cold cathode in the spare FDD bay with an actually FDD in the botom bay.

Was having trouble with about 50-60% of floppies not working, thought it was a bad batch but then came to the idea that it was the inverter and turning off the Cold Cathode when i want to use the FDD (rarely) seems to do the trick.

I have had some HDD errors on my boot drive, but it has passed all tests.....til a week ago. It was detecting with like Arabic writing in the post screen, not booting, and then finally not detecting in any PC.
Replaced it and now a week later the same problem.


My question is,
can an inverter negatively effect a HDD thats on the other side of a FDD and then a bay below ???

i have since unplugged the inverter and everything is ok thus far.

 

[morkinva]

Does an inverter create EM fields? If so then it seems possible for it to cause errors on magnetic media. What if you mount the inverter as far away as possible from your drives and mobo? See if that helps.

 

[daveqb]

yeah thanx it might be the trick.

i havent had it on for a few days now and not a problem. (may have bought a 120gig HDD i didnt have too, oh well can never have enough HDD space )


but your "EM Fields" gave me something more to google, see what we get
i would of thought though that there would be plenty of warnings of this with inverters, if this is indeed the cause.

thanx